Impressive Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art Highlights

Impressive Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art Highlights

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  Sayed Haider Raza, Tapovan, 1972. Sold for $1,472,000 at Sotheby’s New York.

  This epic 1972 work represents the pinnacle of Sayed Haider Raza’s meditation on the mystical power of nature and the power of his use of colours. This work was pegged at $800,000 to 1 million, ultimately fetching an amount exceeding all predictions.
  
  

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  Maqbool Fida Husain, The Sixth Seal, 1964. Sold for £725,000 at Sotheby’s London.

  The Sixth Seal exemplifies the eclectic balance between Maqbool Fida Husain’s cubist modern style of painting and Indian traditional sensibility and subject matter. It was formerly in the historic collection of Chester and Davida Herwitz; is published in the artist’s most seminal monograph and was exhibited at Oxford’s Museum of Modern Art’s India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art in 1982.
  
  

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  Francis Newton Souza, Man with Monstrance, 1953. Sold for $1,360,000 at Sotheby’s New York.

  Painted in textured dark tones, Francis Newton Souza’s melancholy work is evocative of mid-20th-century stylization and represents the conflict between religion and sex, a pervasive theme in the artist’s work. This work was the cover lot for its sale and fetched a spellbinding $1.36 million figure, double its pre-auction estimate.
  
  

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  Tyeb Mehta, Untitled (Blue Painting), 1982. Sold for £1,118,500 at Sotheby’s London.

  A classic and timeless masterpiece, Untitled (Blue Painting) is one of the few monochromatic paintings that Tyeb Mehta ever produced and is a departure from his themes of angst and suffering. Created two years before Mehta began his residency at Santiniketan, West Bengal, this work is known to have been created during a renaissance in Mehta’s career where he appeared to have come full circle in his artistic progression.
  
  

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  Akbar Padamsee, Untitled (Reclining nude), 1960. Sold for $1,426,500 at Sotheby’s New York.

  Untitled (Reclining Nude) is well-known as one of only three monumental paintings from the artist’s important Juhu series of the 1960s when he only worked in shades of grey. It has been described by the artist as one of his “best” paintings and was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Montreal in 1960.
  
  

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  Subodh Gupta, One Cow, 2003. Sold for $866,500 at Sotheby’s New York.

  One Cow is an outstanding example of the rural-to-urban, local-to-global dialogue that dominates 21st-Century thinking about the art of India. Often dubbed as India’s Damien Hirst, Gupta combines formalism with a satirical, incisive understanding of common symbols and forms; here the bicycles have become cows, acknowledging the irony of cow's milk being delivered without the presence of a cow.
  
  

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  Jitish Kallat, Sweatopia 1, 2008. Sold for $221,000 at Sotheby’s New York.

  A classic example of Jitish Kallat’s pop-inspired monumental canvases capturing the urban lifestyle and the dialogue between individual and collective experiences in his hometown of Bombay city.
  
  

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    Chatsworth ‘House Style’, Presented by C W Sellors Fine Jewellery: Episode 1 – Traditions & Transgressions
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    Category: Jewelry

    Sent from the Gods: The Apollo and Artemis Diamonds
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    An Evening of Contemporary South Asian Art and Music in New Delhi
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    Fashion and Art on the Agenda in New Delhi
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    A Treasure Trove of Exceptional Works in New Delhi