In 1946, Sayed Haider Raza had his first solo show at the Bombay Art Society Salon. Only 24 at the time, he was awarded the society’s Silver Medal. Hardship soon followed. His father and mother died within the same year, and his siblings relocated to Pakistan. In 1950, Raza traveled to France when he won a scholarship to the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He stayed in France until 2011, yet his art remained distinctly Indian. “My work is my own inner experience and involvement with the mysteries of nature and form” he once explained, “which is expressed in color, line, space and light.” In 1980, Raza’s vision of Bindu, an Indian philosophy, brought metaphysics into his abstract paintings. Raza died in 2016, at the age of 94. This is the first solo show of his work in France. —Elena Clavarino