南亞現代及當代印度藝術

This spring, Christie’s auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art will take place on 25 March during Asian Art Week in New York. This season’s catalogue brings to the market several important works that have not been seen in public for several decades, celebrating the rich diversity of artistic approaches that have emerged from South Asia and its global diaspora across the 20th and 21st centuries.

Led by Tyeb Mehta’s 1977 masterpiece Gesture, the auction brings together an exceptional group of modern works, including an impressive set of paintings from the 1950s by Sayed Haider Raza, an important early painting by Maqbool Fida Husain titled Puppet Dancers, and Jehangir Sabavala’s 1959 Butterflies over Pink Blossoms and 1970 Green Thoughts in a Green Shade. These works are complemented by an extremely rare, large-format canvas by K. Ramanujam, alongside a seminal collection of early works by Ganesh Pyne, including Crossing the Fountain (1974), and striking paintings by Francis Newton Souza, Ram Kumar, K. K. Hebbar, Jagdish Swaminathan, Prabhakar Barwe, Manjit Bawa and Avinash Chandra among others.

The catalogue also features works by significant forerunners of this group, including Edwin Lord Weeks, Pestonji Bomanji, J. P. Gangooly, Jamini Roy, George Keyt and Richard Gabriel, and is rounded out by notable contemporary works by Sheila Makhijani, Jitish Kallat and Senaka Senanayake.

The live auction will be accompanied by an online sale running from 18 March – 1 April 2025.

Special Notice
From June 2025, EU regulations 2019/880 and 2021/1079 introduce new licensing requirements and regulations relating to the import of cultural goods into the EU. We recommend clients check ahead of the sale whether the lot they wish to purchase and its import into the EU could be impacted by the regulations.

特別須知
自 2025 年 6 月起，歐盟第 2019/880 號及第 2021/1079 號條例引入了新的許可證要求，以及與進口文物到歐盟相關的要求和法規。我們建議客戶在拍賣前，檢查如欲購買的拍賣品及將其進口至歐盟會否受到此等法規的影響。