南亚现代及当代印度艺术
南亚现代及当代印度艺术

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This autumn, Christie’s auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art will take place on 17 September during Asian Art Week in New York. Our catalogue reflects the diversity and evolution of artistic practices and styles across South Asia and its diaspora throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

The sale is led by an important Untitled painting from 1984 by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde. First sold by Christie’s on 20 December 1987 in a charity auction in Mumbai, this luminous painting is meticulously constructed using numerous translucent layers of fiery amber and gold. Seemingly radiating light from within, it is one of the artist’s finest works from the period and underlines Christie’s longstanding commitment to India and South Asian art over the last four decades.

2025 marks the birth centenary of both Tyeb Mehta and Krishen Khanna. We are honoured to celebrate their legacies with paintings that feature their most iconic subjects: Tyeb Mehta’s Trussed Bull and Krishen Khanna’s Bandwallas in Procession. These are accompanied by significant works by other important modern artists from the Subcontinent, including Jehangir Sabavala’s The Sand-Bank from 1967, last exhibited almost six decades ago, Sayed Haider Raza’s canonical Germination from 1988, Francis Newton Souza’s 1957 portrait Girl in a Dressing Gown and Maqbool Fida Husain’s dynamic Horses painted in 1971. The catalogue also features significant works by Jamini Roy, K.H. Ara, K.K. Hebbar, G.R. Santosh, Sakti Burman, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Rashid Chowdhury.

Also included are works by Abdur Rahman Chughtai, George Keyt, Ivan Peries, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jagdish Swaminathan and Shanti Dave, complemented by a selection of contemporary pieces by Jitish Kallat, Shahzia Sikander and Ravinder Reddy.

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9月17日 上午10:00 (美国东部夏令时间)

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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

Cataloguer | South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

Raagini Pareek is a Cataloguer with the 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, in her role as a cataloguer at Christie’s, Raagini has returned to South Asian modern and contemporary art, and is responsible for researching and cataloguing all the works of art that come through the department.

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