Auction Highlights

Offering a rare glimpse into Sayed Haider Raza’s foundational practice, this work is an exceptional example of the artist’s earliest compositions in Paris.

Untitled (Houses) Offering a rare glimpse into Sayed Haider Raza’s foundational practice, this work is an exceptional example of the artist’s earliest compositions in Paris.

Sayed Haider Raza

Sayed Haider Raza, 'Untitled (Houses)'

Four unique and fresh insights into Manjit Bawa and this exceptional masterpiece.

Click here for an in-depth focus on the star lot of this auction, as told by Susan S. Bean, Renu Modi, Ina Puri and Ranbir Kaleka.

A Masterwork by Manjit Bawa

This collection of works highlights the historic encounter of Rabindranath Tagore and Leonard Elmhirst of Dartington Hall. Modeled on Rabindranath’s Santiniketan, Dartington Hall fostered an important artistic community and drew visionary thinkers and artists from around the world to its beautiful estate.

An Artistic Legacy

A Meeting of Minds: Rabindranath Tagore and Leonard Elmhirst

The rich artistic heritage of Pakistan is explored through the opening lots of the auction. Spanning from 1951 to 2022, these works highlight the craftsmanship and powerful message of key figures within Pakistani art. The selection begins with an early figurative work by pioneering artist Anwar Jalal Shemza through to an emotive diptych by leading contemporary artist Imran Qureshi.

Art of Pakistan

Quintessential of Bhupen Khakhar, People at Mosque is replete with charming neo-miniaturist details. The painting is also imbued with important Islamic symbols and references. Here, this masterwork of Bhupen is deconstructed and explained by its iconography.

Bhupen Khakhar's 'People at Mosque'

In March 2023, a world auction record was set at Sotheby’s New York for India’s most famed Modernist, Maqbool Fida Husain. The sale of his landmark painting Bulls from 1961 ignited the market, and this season we are honoured to be offering an array of works, from watercolours in his sketchbook to canvases of his most enduring themes: the woman and the horse. These lots are testament to the depth and breadth of Husain’s inimitable craft.

Highlights of this season’s auction by India’s most famed Modernist

Paintings of a Maverick: Maqbool Fida Husain

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The upcoming Modern &amp; Contemporary South Asian auction features trailblazers of the region: creators who questioned convention and pioneered their own visual languages. The sale is led by a seminal work by Manjit Bawa from 1995 and a rare, early painting by Bhupen Khakhar, titled People at Mosque. An important single owner sequence from the Dartington Hall Trust comprises a masterwork by polymath Rabindranath Tagore and fresh-to-market works of the Bengal School. Other highlights include exceptional works by Sayed Haider Raza, Maqbool Fida Husain, Francis Newton Souza, Ram Kumar, Zainul Abedin, Jagdish Swaminathan, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Zarina.

Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art