This work from 1968 is an early ‘modernist’ painting in oil. In 1968 Zarina was based in New Delhi and was exhibiting regularly with Gallery Chanakya, from where it was probably acquired. The work was framed in Chennai in the same period by Sarala Art Centre. It was most likely acquired in India by an American collector sometime in the late 1960’s and then would have travelled with them and was eventually sold by their estate in Florida. It bears the characteristics of this period and is interesting to compare it to other ‘early’ works by other artists of a similar age working in Delhi or Baroda such as Arpita Singh and Nasreen Mohamedi.