Tyeb Mehta: Bearing Weight with the lightness of being

The first comprehensive book devoted to Tyeb Mehta’s practice since his death in 2009, and the most complete account of his work yet assembled in a single volume.

One of the defining painters of India’s first postcolonial generation, Tyeb Mehta spent five decades distilling the upheavals he witnessed—Partition, displacement, and the everyday asymmetries of life in a newly independent nation—into a visual language of remarkable economy. Through recurring motifs—the bull, the falling figure, t...