50+
Year of experience
1
Art Listed
Himmat’s birth in 1933 in Lothal, near
Saurashtra, one of the sites of the Indus Valley
civilization where several prehistoric artefacts have
been excavated, became an important detail to
understand his felicity with terracotta and other
materials. It is the archetypal aura, the radical
emotive moulding of the streamlined head that
draws attention. Historians have noted that
Himmat used self-designed tools and innovative
techniques, to create sculptures that spoke of a
unique yet rare contemporary edge.
