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SOUTH ASIAN MODERN + CONTEMPORARY ART New York 14 September 2016 SOUTH ASIAN MODERN + CONTEMPORARY ART WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 PROPERTIES FROM AUCTION The Amiri Family Collection Wednesday 14 September 2016 The Darashaw Collection at 10.00 am (Lots 601-700D) The Ghose Foundation Collection, San Francisco, California 20 Rockefeller Plaza The Collection of Alison Harper New York, NY 10020 The Le Hunte Family Collection The Collection of Dr. William Lomax VIEWING The Collection of Vito Maggiolo Friday 9 September 10.00 am - 5.00 pm The Estate of Joan P. Miller Saturday 10 September 10.00 am - 5.00 pm The Rahman Family Collection Sunday 11 September 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm The Collection of David M. Scott Monday 12 September 10.00 am - 5.00 pm The Wiggin Family Collection Tuesday 13 September 10.00 am - 2.00 pm AUCTIONEER William Robinson (#2017522) Front Cover: 609 Back Cover: 695 Inside Front: 700D Index: 677 Please note lots marked with a square Qwill be AUCTION CODE AND NUMBER moved to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services These auctions feature (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn) on the last day In sending absentee bids or making of the sale. Lots are not available for collection at enquiries, this sale should be referred Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Bid live in Christie’s salerooms worldwide Red Hook, Brooklyn) until after the third business to as SYED–12174 day following the sale. All lots will be stored free of register at www.christies.com charge for 30 days from auction date at Christie’s Rockefeller Center or Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn). Operation CONDITIONS OF SALE hours for collection from either location are from Browse this auction and view 9.30AM to 5.00 PM, Monday-Friday. After 30 days This auction is subject to Important real-time results on your iPhone, from the auction date property may be moved at iPod Touch, iPad and Android Christie’s discretion. Please contact Post-Sale Notices, Conditions of Sale and to Services to confirm the location of your property prior reserves. to collection. Please consult the Lot Collection Notice for collection information. This sheet is available from [50] View catalogues and leave bids online the Bidder Registration staff, Purchaser Payments at christies.com or the Packing Desk and will be sent with your invoice. 21/06/16 WORLD ART GROUP William Robinson G. Max Bernheimer Susan Kloman Deepanjana Klein Daniel Gallen International Head of Group International Head of International Head of African International Head of Indian Global Managing Director Tel: +44 (0)207 389 2370 Antiquities Department & Oceanic Art Department & Southeast Asian Antiquities, Tel: +44 (0) 207 389 2590 Tel: +1 212 636 2247 Tel: +1 212 484 4898 Modern & Contempory Art Tel: +1 212 636 2189 INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENTS & SALES CALENDAR AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART ISLAMIC ART SOUTH ASIAN MODERN BUSINESS MANAGERS + CONTEMPORARY ART Paris London - King Street Regional Managing Director Bruno Claessens Sara Plumbly London - King Street New York Pierre Amrouche (Consultant) Tel: +44 (0)207 389 2372 Ross Elgie Tel: +33 1 40 76 84 48 Damian Vesey London - South Kensington Tel: +44 (0)207 389 2700 Tel: +1 212 636 2190 Romain Pingannaud ANTIQUITIES New York London Xavier Fournier Sheila Parekh-Blum Julia Grant London Tel: +44 (0)207 389 3316 Tel: +1 212 636 2190 Tel: +44 (0)207 752 3113 Laetitia Delaloye Mumbai Victoria Hearn INDIAN AND SOUTH EAST Sonal Singh France Francesca Hickin ASIAN ART Nishad Avari Sarah de Maistre Tel: +44 (0)207 389 3195 Tel: +91 22 2280 7905 Tel: +33 (0)1 40 76 85 68 New York New York Hannah Solomon Sandhya Jain-Patel Alexandra Olsman Leiko Coyle Tel: +1 212 636 2245 Isabel McWilliams Tel: +1 212 636 2190 13 SEPTEMBER 20 OCTOBER 29 NOVEMBER- 18 DECEMBER INDIAN, HIMALAYAN, ART OF THE ISLAMIC 9 DECEMBER THE INDIA SALE AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN AND INDIAN WORLDS ANCIENT JEWELRY MUMBAI WORKS OF ART LONDON, KING STREET ONLINE NEW YORK 21 OCTOBER 7 DECEMBER 14 SEPTEMBER ART OF THE ISLAMIC ANTIQUITIES SOUTH ASIAN MODERN AND INDIAN WORLDS LONDON, KING STREET + CONTEMPORARY ART LONDON, SOUTH KENSINGTON 13 DECEMBER NEW YORK ART D’AFRIQUE, 25 OCTOBER D’OCÉANIE ET ANTIQUITIES D’AMÉRIQUE DU NORD NEW YORK PARIS 09/08/2016 Email. First initial followed by last [email protected] (e.g. Sheila Parekh = [email protected]) INTERNATIONAL SPECIALISTS AND SERVICES FOR THIS SALE Deepanjana Klein Sonal Singh Nishad Avari Damian Vesey Sheila Parekh-Blum Anita Mehta Umah Jacob Chanel Clarke David Ratcliffe Alix Bickson BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Amin Jaffer Zain Talyarkhan International Director Director, Growth Markets, London London SPECIALISTS SERVICES NEW YORK MUMBAI ABSENTEE AND Deepanjana Klein Sonal Singh TELEPHONE BIDS International Head of Department Head of Department Tel: +1 212 636 2437 [email protected] [email protected] Fax: +1 212 636 4938 Sheila Parekh-Blum Nishad Avari AUCTION RESULTS Head of Sale Specialist christies.com [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +1 212 636 2190 Tel: +91 22 2280 7905 CATALOGUES ON LINE Fax: +1 212 636 4934 Fax: +91 22 2280 7911 Lotfinder® Internet: christies.com LONDON REGIONAL MANAGING DIRECTOR Damian Vesey NEW YORK INSURANCE Associate Specialist Ross Elgie Tel: +1 212 484 4879 [email protected] [email protected] Fax: +1 212 636 4957 SALE COORDINATOR Tel: +1 212 636 2190 Anita Mehta Fax: +1 212 636 4934 POSTSALE SERVICES [email protected] Payment, Shipping and Collection CONSULTANT Tel: +1 212 636 2650 Arun Vadehra Fax: +1 212 636 4939 Email: [email protected] 08/08/2016 THE GERMINATION PROJECT: BUILDING THE FUTURE OF PHILADELPHIA The New York Stock Exchange hosts the 2015 class of Germination Project Student Fellows ollectors, philanthropists and universities, healthcare organizations equipped to enrich and strengthen cultural ambassadors, Pamela and technology firms, the Germination Philadelphia’s global relationships. Cand Ajay Raju are model citizens. Project empowers its fellows both with In the spirit of civic engagement, the the skills to build careers in a changing Atul Dodiya was the featured artist Rajus established the Pamela and economic landscape, and with a sense from India in the inaugural edition of Ajay Raju Foundation to support those of civic duty to deploy those skills for the IntXchange’s biennial program in organizations and initiatives with the the benefit of Philadelphia’s 2013. The program soon caught the most impact, ingenuity and long- underserved communities. imagination of other leading artists range vision for the advancement and from South Asia. Jitish Kallat was development of Philadelphia. A hallmark initiative of the Germination invited after Dodiya and the featured Project is the IntXchange, a artist for 2016 is Ranjani Shettar. In Among the Raju Foundation’s principal transnational art-advocacy network support of the Germination Project, enterprises is the Germination Project, dedicated to forging a new arts and leading contemporary South Asian a non-profit, catalytic incubator for culture exchange between the Eastern artists and patrons in the field, including Philadelphia’s next generation of civic World and the West. Through the A. Balasubramaniam (lot 695), Atul leaders, drawn from the best and deployment of institutional resources Dodiya (lot 697), Jitish Kallat (lot 700), brightest of Philadelphia’s high like the Philadelphia Museum of Reena Kallat (lot 699), Rashid Rana (lot school students. Art, Philadelphia Fringe Arts, the 700B), and Ranjani Shettar (lot 700D), Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera came together and donated works to The Germination Project’s mission is Philadelphia, IntXchange seeks to fortify the Pamela and Ajay Raju Foundation. to create a self-sustaining ecosystem a relationship of reciprocal awareness, DAG Modern has generously donated of leadership to transform Philadelphia support and binary collaboration several works toward the cause. It is the into a global force in policy, commerce between two seemingly disparate collective belief that what a couple has and culture. Students are selected arts communities. For Germination single-handedly achieved can only get to participate in a leadership training Project Fellows, the IntXchange oers stronger with the support of some of program developed in collaboration an experiential arts education led by the biggest names in the South Asian with The Wharton School of the experts from the Philadelphia Museum art world to ensure the future of the University of Pennsylvania and the of Art, and a diverse consortium of Germination Project, to build better Wharton Social Impact Initiative. After artists from the U.S. and India alike. The citizens and create a bridge between the graduating from college, students who pedagogical goal of the IntXchange is to East and West through art. participate in the program agree to create, within the ranks of Germination return to Philadelphia to live and work. Project’s student fellow alumni, a The entire proceed raised from the Through institutional partnerships with leadership class of cultural ambassadors sale of lots 695-700D will benefit the Germination Project. Atul Dodiya with Pamela and Ajay Raju 113 THE GERMINATION PROJECT: BUILDING THE FUTURE OF PHILADELPHIA LOTS 695700D SOLD TO BENEFIT THE GERMINATION PROJECT 695 A. BALASUBRAMANIAM B. 1971 Hidden Sight fiberglass, acrylic and wood 22æ x 20q x 3 in. (57.8 x 52.1 x 7.6 cm.) Executed in 2007 number two from an edition of three $40,000-60,000 PROVENANCE: Donated anonymously to the Pamela and Ajay Raju Foundation EXHIBITED: New York, Talwar Gallery, A. Balasubramaniam, 2007 Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, 2008 Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, 2009 Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, 2009 Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Sk(in), 2011 LITERATURE: Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, exhibition catalogue, Klosterneuburg, 2008, p.