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Himmat Shah was born in 1933 at Lothal in Gujarat. After initially training as a drawing teacher, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S.
University, Baroda, from 1956 to 1960. He was a National Cultural Scholar in 1956, and received a French Government scholarship to study etching at Atelier 17, Paris in 1967. Shah was a member of Group 1890, a short-lived artists' collective founded by J.
Swaminathan.
A qualitative approach is taken to shed light on the personality and creativity of Himmat Shah.
The then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, opened the group's first and only show in 1963. The group dispersed soon after, and each of its members, including Shah, continued their artistic practices with their own agendas.
Shah's predilection for drawing was natural.
Being an inexpensive, transformative and free form of expression, it appealed to him in his negotiations with form and space. If one looks at his early drawings closely, one discovers the skill behind the chaotic black lines.
These works are never predictable, and deeply ironic in the mann
