Veteran Indian artist Anjolie Ela Menon is currently presenting a career-spanning exhibition titled 'Revisitations' at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi. Presented by Vadehra Art Gallery and curated by Uma Nair, the show features over 30 works ranging from the 1950s to new pieces created in 2025 and 2026. The exhibition highlights Menon’s steadfast commitment to figurative painting, Byzantine-inspired imagery, and recurring motifs such as the empty chair and the crow, which explore themes of presence and loss.
This exhibition is significant as it serves as a mini-retrospective for one of India’s most influential female modernists who famously resisted the mid-century trend toward abstraction. By juxtaposing her early earthy-toned Masonite works with her more recent, vibrantly colored canvases, the show provides a rare look at the technical evolution of an artist whose career was launched by M.F. Husain and shaped by the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.