With a total of 65 lots on offer, the event will take place exclusively at www.saffronart.com on June 15 and 16.
Saffronart’s 2011 Summer Auction of Modern & Contemporary Indian Art indeed hosts some noteworthy masterpieces of proven provenance and exceptional quality. It includes a wide array of works - paintings, sculptures and installations by top Indian artists like Tyeb Mehta, SH Raza, Jogen Chowdhury, G. Ravinder Reddy, Manjit Bawa, and Jitish Kallat, among others.
Other highlights of this online sale are paintings by FN Souza, Bharti Kher and Anju Dodiya. Among the major highlights of this online sale is an exquisite painting (‘Carcassonne’, 1951) by SH Raza. After he moved to France in the 1950s, the master painter started to experiment with orchestration in his works utilizing as elements of construction the rural France houses and churches.
These new landscapes sans human presence did not denote any particular time or place, though they were largely inspired by the French countryside. One of the citadels that he happened to visit on his sojourns through the country and painted was Carcassonne. It’s the first of two known painting he worked on after traveling to this French town in Languedoc-Roussillon’s southern region.
Here, SH Raza comes up with a tightly composed landscape viewed from over a dark roof in the foreground, as if flattened against the gray-blue sky enveloping it. SH Raza’s early watercolor landscapes, done in the 1940s, apparently had a fluid feel, ‘Carcassonne’ displays a different handling of structure and composition, as well as a deft change of medium influenced by a meeting with the famous French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Some of the significant contemporary highlights of the auction catalogue are iconic ‘Gopika’ by G. Ravinder Reddy from 2003; bindis & velour fabric done on painted wooden panel (‘Rugged Terrain’, 2007) by Bharti Kher; and an important painting (‘War Dance’) by Jitish Kallat.
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