Sotheby’s London auction of Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art on 8th June includes Miniature Paintings and will also offer a 1971 work, entitled ‘La Forge’ by Sayed Haider Raza, at auction for the first ever time.
The major sale will comprise total 91 lots including Anglo-Indian art, significant modern & contemporary South Asian artworks apart from Indian miniatures expected to realise an estimated £2 million. The Sotheby’s Director, Holly Brackenbury, also Indian Art Specialist, has been quoted as saying: “We are offering a group of important artworks by some of the most influential South Asian masters like Raza, Souza and Husain. Many of these artworks have been drawn from private collections. They were acquired from the artists directly.”
Contemporary section of the auction house includes works by several artists who have shown extensively in top international institutions. Raza’s ‘La Forge’ represents the pinnacle of his art career when, after some experimentation, his work harbored an innovative form of expression purely focused on the orchestration of color. Right through his career, he has been influenced by the nature’s mystical power; the potency and the elements of symbols and colors to represent the elements are core to his works.
All these defining features are realised beautifully in the painting, which is estimated at £300,000-400,000. M.F. Husain’s ‘Islam’ is estimated at £300,000-400,000. It’s a monumental painting that masterfully depicts the late artist’s Muslim faith. Part of an impressive 10-panel series ‘Theorama’, Husain drew inspiration for the work from his days as a billboard painter and also his intense preoccupation with theosophy. In the present work his careful usage of line and color, and also the religious motifs, made it a significant homage to the Islam religion. Souza’s ‘Woman with Mirror and Flowers’ (estimated at £180,000-220,000), is another important large-scale portrait.
Leading the sale’s section of Indian miniature paintings is an exquisite work of opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. Estimated at £15,000-20,000, it’s a grand depiction of the Maharana Sajjan Singh.
The major sale will comprise total 91 lots including Anglo-Indian art, significant modern & contemporary South Asian artworks apart from Indian miniatures expected to realise an estimated £2 million. The Sotheby’s Director, Holly Brackenbury, also Indian Art Specialist, has been quoted as saying: “We are offering a group of important artworks by some of the most influential South Asian masters like Raza, Souza and Husain. Many of these artworks have been drawn from private collections. They were acquired from the artists directly.”
Contemporary section of the auction house includes works by several artists who have shown extensively in top international institutions. Raza’s ‘La Forge’ represents the pinnacle of his art career when, after some experimentation, his work harbored an innovative form of expression purely focused on the orchestration of color. Right through his career, he has been influenced by the nature’s mystical power; the potency and the elements of symbols and colors to represent the elements are core to his works.
All these defining features are realised beautifully in the painting, which is estimated at £300,000-400,000. M.F. Husain’s ‘Islam’ is estimated at £300,000-400,000. It’s a monumental painting that masterfully depicts the late artist’s Muslim faith. Part of an impressive 10-panel series ‘Theorama’, Husain drew inspiration for the work from his days as a billboard painter and also his intense preoccupation with theosophy. In the present work his careful usage of line and color, and also the religious motifs, made it a significant homage to the Islam religion. Souza’s ‘Woman with Mirror and Flowers’ (estimated at £180,000-220,000), is another important large-scale portrait.
Leading the sale’s section of Indian miniature paintings is an exquisite work of opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. Estimated at £15,000-20,000, it’s a grand depiction of the Maharana Sajjan Singh.
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