Padma Shri S.H. Raza

S.H. Raza or Syed Haider Raza is an eminent Indian artist who has lived and worked in France since 1950, but maintains strong ties with India.His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981 and Padma Bhushan in 2007
At a Dec 2006 auction, a painting by Raza reportedly sold for US $1.4 million.