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Born in Bombay, Kaiko Moti (1921-1989) attended the Bombay School of Fine Arts. After receiving a scholarship from University College, he moved to London, where he worked under Reginald Butler. Moti settled in Paris in 1950, first studying sculpture under Ossip Zadkine, and later turning to printmaking under the tutelage of Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17. He is best known for color aquatints depicting animals, still lifes, and misty landscapes and marine scenes inspired by his travels in India, Ibiza, and Britanny. Executed in 1976, Rocher II shows the subtle play of light, serene, contemplative mood, and Turner-like sense for nature’s sublimity seen in Moti’s finest seascapes. The subject of two major monographs, Moti’s work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the New Delhi Museum of Art. His aquatints are preserved in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, among others.
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