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Lot Essay
The latest phase of Akbar Padamsees heads relates to an earlier series of heads he painted in the 1950's titled Prophets. Although the execution of the works have changed over a period of forty years the essential approach towards the head has remained unchanged.
Eunice de Souza, in a retospective essay, writes 'most of the figures evoke a sense of vulnerability and anguish, yet none of them are simple victim figures. They are not merely alone, but essentially separate from the viewer...This separateness is so persistent a feature of the paintings that one is forced to ask whether it arises out of a sense of the privacy of the self, or an uncompromising existential search in which each man or woman is irrevocably alone..' (Eunice de Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Art Heritage, New Delhi.)
Eunice de Souza, in a retospective essay, writes 'most of the figures evoke a sense of vulnerability and anguish, yet none of them are simple victim figures. They are not merely alone, but essentially separate from the viewer...This separateness is so persistent a feature of the paintings that one is forced to ask whether it arises out of a sense of the privacy of the self, or an uncompromising existential search in which each man or woman is irrevocably alone..' (Eunice de Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Art Heritage, New Delhi.)