In the first works in Mehlli Gobhai’s exhibition “Epiphanies,” all of them untitled and dating to the 1970s, vibrant tones such as cobalt blue, mint green, scarlet red, and bright yellow constellated on dynamic abstract canvases. On closer inspection, human figures and objects reduced to geometric forms and lines emerged from the play of colors: Lord Krishna played the flute in one, while a female figure pleasured herself in another, dated 1974, and we made out a box lying flung open in a third. These rarely seen chromatic paintings—which Gobhai made when he was dividing his time between New