STUDIO - Off Lamington Road by Gieve Patel

Oil on Canvas, 54 x 88 in

- ZEENAT NAGREE

Painter, poet and playwright, Gieve Patel (1940–2023) had a facility to capture the texture of life on Mumbai’s streets amid the apparent chaos of a crowd. Often, Patel represented people at the very margins of the city’s economy, holding space for each of them in a way that did not veil their predicaments. His work was informed by his practice as a physician, and the proximity it provided him to injury and death.