The Bindu was his muse, his leitmotif, evolving and gyrating, circling into concentric spheres drawing the universe's energies that were presented in brilliant orchestration of colour and form. At 94, after a prolonged illness, one of India's foremost painters, the artist who made the cosmos of the Bindu his very own, breathed his last, in Delhi.

Saurashtra, made by Raza in 1983, sold for  Rs 16.51cr at a Christies auction in 2010, making it the higest-selling work by an Indian artist at that time