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South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

Sale Overview

This autumn, Christie’s auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art will take place on 16 September during Asian Art Week in New York. Bringing together exceptional works spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, our catalogue celebrates the artists and the wide array of practices and styles that have come to define South Asian Art.

The auction features landmark works by masters of modern Indian art, including Francis Newton Souza's Woman with Lamp (1949) and Building in Trafalgar Square (1955), Maqbool Fida Husain's The Journey (1959) and Jehangir Sabavala's A Progression of Sails (1969). Further highlights include important works by Sayed Haider Raza, Ram Kumar, Manjit Bawa, Ganesh Pyne, K.H. Ara and Rameshwar Broota.

These masterpieces are complemented by significant groupings of works by Meera Mukherjee, N.S. Bendre and Zarina, alongside important pieces by Edwin Lord Weeks, George Keyt, Rashid Choudhury and Nalini Malani.

Auction times
16 Sep 10:00 AM (EDT) Lots 501-612

Our specialist’s selection

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Nishad Avari

Nishad Avari

Specialist, Head of Department | South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

Nishad Avari is Specialist, Head of Department for South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art at Christie’s New York. Mr. Avari joined the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s as an Associate Specialist in 2013, with more than eight years of auction experience in New York and Mumbai. In addition to his previous role as Associate Vice President and Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art at Saffronart, Mr. Avari also served as Editor, handling cataloguing, research and content for the auction house. Prior to joining the auction world, Mr. Avari worked with the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, during the seminal international exhibition, Picasso: Metamorphoses 1900–1972. Since graduating from Macalester College, Minnesota with a dual degree in Political Science and International Studies, Mr. Avari has contributed articles and essays to exhibition catalogues, scholarly journals and news publications. In 2017, Mr. Avari relocated to New York head Christie’s auctions of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art there.
Raagini Pareek

Raagini Pareek

Junior Specialist, Head of Online Sales | South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

Raagini Pareek is Junior Specialist, Head of Online Sales for South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art department in New York. After graduating from New York University with a BA in psychology and minors in art history and economics, she joined the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) in Mumbai as an intern working with their modern and contemporary Indian art collection. During her time at the JNAF, Raagini worked on two exhibitions, the modern “S.H. Raza: Zamin” and the contemporary “Woman Is As Woman Does”. Following this, she went on to hold a curatorial internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Department of Asian Art, where she researched ancient Buddhist Art and assisted with the 2023 exhibition “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE-400BCE”. Now at Christie’s, Raagini has returned to South Asian modern and contemporary art, serving as Junior Specialist and Head of Online Sales, with responsibilities spanning scholarly research and cataloguing, alongside the management of the department’s online sales.

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