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The series The Indian Fine Art Sale Edition 1 24 - 26 August 2020 The series 50 ARTISTS 50 WORKS 24 - 26 August 2020 The Indian Fine Art Sale FIXED-PRICE SALE For further information please contact us at [email protected] Ashish Anand CEO and Managing Director, DAG FROM Ashish Anand’s Desk I am delighted to share with you the first edition of our Gold Series sale e-catalogue—a platform that brings to you works of high quality with commensurate values. All works in this series are priced between Rs. 5 lakh and Rs. 20 lakh. When we launched the Silver Series in May 2020 as our attempt to stay engaged with art-lovers no longer able to visit our galleries, we were unsure of the response. But the feedback we received was heartening, and it was backed by commensurate sales to prove that the art-loving fraternity supported the initiative and gave it a resounding thumbs-up. The Silver Series was modest in its ambition in terms of prices (between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 5 lakh) and its fourth edition will follow immediately after the first Gold Series sale. We have other plans in store that I will share with you as they develop. Meanwhile, the DAG Bespoke series for customised audiences has also been launched, which—as the name suggests—remains exclusive and, therefore, intended only for a small group or body of people, many of who may be first-time art buyers. While price is an important indicator, and separator, between the Silver and Gold sales series, I must point out that it is not the only differentiator. It is our endeavour to enhance the art-lover’s experience with works from the same pool of masters, but with additional twists—whether size, medium, or selected for reasons of historicity or rarity. Different works by different artists fulfil our need for range and variety. They may also represent different periods in an artist’s journey and growth. Our team of advisors will be happy to share additional information with you to help you understand the quality and background research that helped us pick these works for this first edition of the Gold Series. 2 ABOUT DAG Established in 1993, DAG is an art company that spans a gamut of verticals that includes museums, art galleries, exhibitions, publishing, archives, knowledge-based lineups, as well as programmes for the specially-abled and sight-impaired. With India’s largest inventory of art and archival material and a brisk acquisitions platform, it offers curators and writers a vast choice for the planning and execution of important, historic retrospectives and expositions that have taken place at its galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai and New York, as well as through collaborations with stellar institutions such as The Wallace Collection, London, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, and Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur. Last year, India’s first public–private collaboration in the arts space began in January 2019 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating Drishyakala art museum in the precincts of Red Fort, New Delhi—a UNESCO world heritage monument—in which the Archaeological Survey of India has partnered with DAG. Drishyakala currently has four simultaneous exhibitions on display that include the first-ever comprehensive overview of India’s nine National Treasure artists, as well as the first viewing of the complete 144 works of the eighteenth-century aquatints of Thomas Daniell and William Daniell included in their iconic ‘Oriental Scenery’ collection. In January 2020, the Prime Minister inaugurated Ghare Baire: The World, the Home and Beyond, 18th to 20th Century Art in Bengal, a museum- exhibition at Old Currency Building, Kolkata, curated by DAG in collaboration with NGMA. Other museum projects are currently underway. DAG’s exhibitions and books have helped establish Indian art around the world, its repertoire spanning pre-modern art as well as modern masters. The collection includes works by India’s most celebrated artists, including Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy, Nandalal Bose, Rabindranath Tagore as well as his nephews Abanindranath and Gaganendranath, the Progressives F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta, and modernists Avinash Chandra, Ram Kumar, G. R. Santosh, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Chittaprosad, Altaf—an extensive list including over a thousand painters and sculptors. Apart from being on view at its galleries and museums, DAG has been responsible for sharing their works with viewers at biennales such as Kochi-Muziris and Shanghai, as well as at international fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong, Armory New York, Art Dubai, Masterpiece London and India Art Fair. Conferences, discussions and other programming has been part of these initiatives. As an agile, flexible organisation, DAG has responded to the coronavirus pandemic by shifting its activities online, of which the Silver Series and Gold Series sales e-catalogues are an important step. Exhibitions and other programming too have migrated online—a universe DAG will continue to occupy once lockdowns ease, for the effortless opportunity it offers for seamless engagement between art, artists, viewers and art-lovers. As India’s most significant art organisation, its continued belief in the relevance and importance of Indian art as part of global art remains its guiding force. 3 HIGHLIGHTS of the Sale Fixed-price sale of works valued between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 20 lakh First-come, first-served basis Sale starts on 24th August and ends on 26th August 2020 Prices mentioned in this catalogue are excluding Goods & Services Tax (GST) and shipping charges outside NCR (India). Currently, applicable rate of GST on sale of artworks in India is 12% Delivery of artworks will be made based on the free movement of goods being allowed in both locations of dispatch and delivery For invoicing, payment, delivery and other terms, please refer to the Conditions to Buy on pages 60-62 of this catalogue 4 ARTIST INDEX J. Sultan Ali Anonymous No: 06 | Page: 15 (Portraiture) No: 10 | Page: 19 K. H. Ara No: 23 | Page: 32 Altaf No: 47 | Page: 56 Prabhakar Barwe No: 34 | Page: 43 Amit Ambalal No: 49 | Page: 58 Jyoti Bhatt No: 42 | Page: 51 Amitava Bikash Bhattacharjee No: 38 | Page: 47 No: 15 | Page: 24 Anonymous (Early Bengal) No: 02 | Page: 11 Nikhil Biswas No: 50 | Page: 59 Nandalal Bose No: 25 | Page: 34 Anonymous (Kalighat Pat) No: 03 | Page: 12 5 Eric Bowen No: 28 | Page: 37 Shanti Dave No: 36 | Page: 45 Shobha Broota Rajendra Dhawan No: 30 | Page: 39 No: 39 | Page: 48 Sakti Burman No: 41 | Page: 50 M. V. Dhurandhar No: 11 | Page: 20 Avinash Chandra No: 09 | Page: 18 K. Laxma Goud No: 48 | Page: 57 Satish Gujral Jogen Chowdhury No: 35 | Page: 44 No: 14 | Page: 23 Sunil Das No: 08 | Page: 17 Zarina Hashmi No: 40 | Page: 49 K. K. Hebbar No: 21 | Page: 30 Prodosh Das Gupta No: 33 | Page: 42 6 M. F. Husain Laxman Pai No: 07 | Page: 16 No: 19 | Page: 28 George Keyt Gogi Saroj Pal No: 12 | Page: 21 No: 31 | Page: 40 Krishen Khanna No: 26 | Page: 35 K. S. Kulkarni Madhvi Parekh No: 05 | Page: 14 No: 37 | Page: 46 Ram Kumar No: 24 | Page: 33 Jeram Patel No: 27 | Page: 36 Rabin Mondal No: 20 | Page: 29 Ganesh Pyne No: 22 | Page: 31 S. Nandagopal Sohan Qadri No: 43 | Page: 52 No: 29 | Page: 38 7 Paritosh Sen A. A. Raiba No: 32 | Page: 41 No: 13 | Page: 22 F. N. Souza No: 18 | Page: 27 Anupam Sud No: 46 | Page: 55 S. H. Raza No: 17 | Page: 26 Ramgopal Vijaivargiya No: 44 | Page: 53 P. T. Reddy No: 01 | Page: 10 Rekha Rodwittiya No: 45 | Page: 54 Jamini Roy No: 04 | Page: 13 G. R. Santosh No: 16 | Page: 25 8 THE SALE 9 P.T.REDDY 1915-96 01 `12,00,000 | $16,000 ENQUIRE HERE Raghuvansha II Oil on hardboard, 1961 27.7 x 37.0 in. / 70.4 x 94.0 cm. Signed and dated in English (lower right) ‘P. T. Reddy / 30/8/61’ Verso Inscribed, titled and dated in English over etched drawing ‘Sl. No. 421 / RAGHUVANSHA II / 1961 / 97x74 / OIL. HB’ Provenance Acquired from the artist’s family, Hyderabad, 2012 P. T. Reddy’s Raghuvansha II recreates a famous moment from the ancient epic written by Kalidasa, which revolved around the lives of the different rulers of the Ikshvaku dynasty. The painting is taken from the second canto of the mahakavya and depicts Dilipa, an ancestor of Rama, trying to rescue the wish-fulfilling cow Nandini from the clutches of a lion. Dilipa and his wife Sudakshina were childless and had sought counsel from the sage Vasistha, who advised them to gain the favour of the cow. Reddy’s adaptability when it came to painting was his greatest achievement. His work could range from vivid landscapes to modernist interpretations of life in and around Hyderabad, from the abstract to—as in this case—the traditional, with medium and scale highlighting his intervention within the conventional. 10 ANONYMOUS (EARLY BENGAL) 02 `15,00,000 | $20,000 ENQUIRE HERE Untitled (Krishna and Radha) Tempera on canvas, c. 1930s 12.7 x 10.7 in. / 32.3 x 27.2 cm. Provenance Private collector, New Delhi, 2019 Would the anonymous artists of the Early Bengal style have been better served if they had signed their names to their paintings? We may never know but their inevitable inclusion into narratives of pre-modern and modern art is helping us learn a little more about them.