Indian and South Asian Art sale courtesy artnet Auctions

artnet Auctions presented the Indian and South Asian Art sale. It featured over 75 select lots of Modern & Contemporary Indian/ Pakistani Art by both emerging as well as established artists. Following were some of the highlights of the auction:

• Souza’s important painting, Untitled (Pieta), offered directly from the estate of the artist’s family (estimated from $350,000- $500,000).
  
  
• Notable Postmodern paintings in the sale included an early and rare oil painting by Sadequain (Pakistani, 1937–1987), Untitled (Skeleton), estimated from $35,000 to $50,000.
  
  
• An Untitled (Portrait of a Man) by Akbar Padamsee (Indian, b.1928) was estimated at $65,000–75,000.
  
  
• Contemporary Indian and South Asian paintings were led by a major oil painting, Peace Protest, from 2004 by T.V. Santhosh (Indian, b.1968), estimated at $85,000–95,000.
  
  
• Other important paintings included ‘Covering Letter #5’ by this year’s short-listed SKODA Indian Art prize nominee, Jitish Kallat, with an estimate of $50,000–60,000, as well as an oil on canvas triptych by Baiju Parthan, Soft Grafitti (Spotlight), estimated at $30,000–40,000.
  
  
• Also featured in the sale were Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Riyas Komu, Chintan Upadhyay, Jamil Naqsh, G.R. Iranna, and rising Indian female art star Chila Kumari Burman.
  
  
• Other media were also offered in the sale: Sculptures, including an exciting and rare red-colored, unique Head 4 (2004), by Ravinder Reddy, estimated from $150,000 to US$175,000, as well as a two-part, dramatic bronze wall sculpture by Anita Dube estimated at $35,000–50,000.
  
  
• An important sculpture by Debanjan Roy, India Shining VI (Gandhi Walking with Dog), was also offered, estimated at $20,000–25,000.
  
  
• On offer were original works on paper and prints by Souza, Maqbool Fida Husain (1915–2011), Sayed Haider Raza, Thota Vaikuntam, Jogen Chowdhury, and rare gold-ink etchings by Zarina Hashmi.
  
  
• These esteemed works joined those of important Contemporary artists: Anish Kapoor, Jagannath Panda, Chitra Ganesh, Francesca Souza, Keren Souza Kohn, as well as exciting original works by a new generation of artists making waves on the international art scene, such as Amjad Ali Talpur, Waseem Ahmed, Muhammad Zeeshan.
  
  
• A selection of photography and video art was led by a major photograph Rashid Rana, as well as an editioned video artwork by esteemed Indian art collective, Raqs Media Collective. Stunning black-and-white photographs from Akbar Padamsee’s famous Nude Study series were noteworthy lots, as are the ultra-vivid color photographs by, Vivek Vilasini, Atul Bhalla, Sunil Gupta.