"The landscape has no boundaries." - AKBAR PADAMSEEIt was in the 1970s that Akbar Padamsee began to paint his Metascape series, coining the term 'metascape' to describe landscapes that had no fixed location in space and no relation to the passage of time. In these uninhabited metascapes, of which the present lot is one, the sun and moon often shine in the same sky, eternally illuminating land and sea. Shadowy mountains in brown and ochre loom over fire-red plains, and deep blue bodies of…
Debashish Majumdar
