What: Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian artWhere: Sotheby’s London, 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA, United KingdomWhen: October 18, 2:30pm BSTPublic Viewing: October 13, 9am- 4:30pm BST; October 14, 9am- 4:30pm BST; October 15, 12pm- 5pm BST; October 16, 12pm- 5pm BST; October 17, 9am- 4:30pm BST; October 18, 9am - 12pm BSTTop Lots of the Sale:The auction will present a selection of Modern and Contemporary South Asian art, featuring an impressive range of paintings and sculpture by Modern masters. The sale also brings under hammer rarely seen Indian works from private collections in Europe and America, including a large scale painting of ‘The Deposition’ by Francis Newton Souza; an early and rare Gaitonde watercolour; and an early Ganesh Pyne canvas work from a swiss estate. It also features rare to come auction works from wider South Asia. Top lots of the sale are:* An untitled oil on canvas painting by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, signed and dated in Devanagari, in the dimension of 152.2 x 101 cm. Estimate: INR 78,851,107- INR 122,657,277 (£900,000- £1,400,000)* An oil on canvas painting titled ‘The Deposition’ by Francis Newton Souza. Painted in 1963, the work is measured at 138 x 170.5 cm. Estimate: INR 35,044,936- INR 52,567,404 (£400,000- £600,000)* An oil on canvas painting by Jehangir Sabavala titled ‘Rice Fields, Palni Hills-II’. Painted in 2008, the work is measured at 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Estimate: INR 14,017,975- INR 15,770,221 (£160,000- £180,000)* An acrylic on canvas painting by Sayed Haider Raza titled ‘Bindu (Five Elements)’. Estimate: INR 8,761,234- INR 13,141,851 (£100,000- £150,000)* An untitled oil on canvas painting by Maqbool Fida Husain. Signed and dated in Devanagari, this work was painted in 1970 and measured at 48.4 x 86.5 cm. Estimate: INR 5,256,740- INR 7,008,987 (£60,000- £80,000)Click on the Slideshow for the highlights of the sale.
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