World of Indian Art

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

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In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.

What makes a work truly iconic? Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Amrita Sher-Gil’s only known sculpture in existence, the only exhibited work by Japanese artist Shokin Katsuta, works of European or Western artists such as Marius Bauer, Thomas Daniell or Edwin Lord Weeks that have never before been shown in the country, by artists from Undivided India such as Allah Bux or M. A. R. Chughtai… Every time we begin an iteration of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’, we are overwhelmed at the thought of how we will bring together instances of rare, historical or exemplary works once again. While the process of selecting, editing and curating the second series has been exhausting, the amazing quality of these works is the finest statement we can make about the quality and legacy of Indian art. The second edition of ‘Iconic Masterpieces’ is travelling to Mumbai where it will be on display across both its galleries at The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, from 27 May 2023 onwards.

To view the exhibition

Our art partnership with American Express offers its Centurion and Platinum cardmembers preferential benefits and discounts in their art collecting journey. You can avail up to 20% discount on spends above of 100,000 INR and upwards on artworks and sculptures at our gallery spaces across New Delhi and Mumbai. Contact the AMEX Concierge or your art advisor at DAG today. Offer valid until 11 July 2023. T&C apply.

Know More

In 1949, Jamini Roy moved from his modest Baghbazar home in north Calcutta to the genteel neighbourhood of Ballygunge Place, at the time an open area with bungalows in a neighbourhood occupied by professionals. Here, as his practice grew, so did his family, and the artist added rooms and floors to the home in which he lived till his passing away in 1972. Four years later, the Government of India declared him a National Treasure artist. In March 2023, the historic home of India’s most loved modernist was acquired by India’s most respected art company, DAG, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist. India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers. The Jamini Roy House Museum is envisioned as a tribute to the artist, and the values of simplicity, creativity and universalism that he espoused.

DAG was established in New Delhi in 1993 and the capital has played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the country’s largest and most respected art institution. It began in 1993 at Hauz Khas Village, which was then a sleepy outpost in the city with a historic character. But once the village became a trendy address for bars, lounges and fashion boutiques, DAG felt the need for a new location in keeping with its mandate of accessibility as well as the right environment in which to view art. The gallery, therefore, re-located to The Claridges in the heart of Lutyens’s Delhi where its exhibitions proved a grand success.

To serve the ambitious nature of DAG’s growth, the need for larger galleries was soon felt. The new galleries are located on Janpath adjacent to Windsor Place within walking distance of hotels and the city’s shopping districts. With two galleries, it can host two simultaneous exhibitions or a single larger one. A rooftop terrace is ideal for events, conversations and other activities DAG may want to host from time to time.

What is the difference between art that is displayed in a museum or gallery space and art that is displayed publicly, in the streets or as parts of buildings and existing fragments of infrastructure?

Public art has been an active inter-medial space between a city's public and its social and political formations since antiquity. Head over to our Journal section to find out how Indian artists have responded to this phenomenon with their own stylistic and subjective interventions.

DAG takes a significant step towards its vision of making art accessible for all, allocating over 180 artworks and archival artefacts from the collection to its Museums Programme. With the launch of the new website, these works are now on view online.

The works on view as a part of the digital museum are drawn primarily from DAG’s historic collection of Bengal art, ranging across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. It provides a unique resource for art lovers to explore the evolution of art in the region, at a time when Calcutta became a hub for global exchanges as the capital of the British Empire. Starting with experiments with academic art in the early days of the colony, the collection traverses the artistic developments of the Swadeshi period and the tumultuous years before and after Independence. In addition, there are a range of photographs and objects from DAG’s archives, presented as capsule collections that delve into specific micro-histories, and open up new areas of research.

Accompanied with illustrated stories, timelines and videos this growing online collection brings the museum experience into our homes and is envisioned as an enduring resource that can be savoured over time for learning, analysis and simply for the love of art!

Explore the collection online

The Art Lab is a travelling, popup museum that takes art into schools, making DAG’s extensive collection directly accessible to young people. Over two weeks, students immerse themselves in the exhibition and take over as artists, researchers, and curators to create their own museum. The exhibition is modular by design, and by the end of the process it takes a completely different shape and form as students intervene with their ideas and creative expressions.

Art Lab also engages with the wider community, with students across different classes, parents, local officials, and partner schools who visit the exhibition on Open House days when the classroom is teeming with the energy and engagement of a busy day at the museum. As a part of Art Lab, DAG also offers a workshop for teachers where they explore simple tools for integrating art in their lessons, and build shared knowledge about art based pedagogies.

Started in Kolkata in April 2022, Art Lab has now travelled to four schools, adding a Bengali module for first generation learners so that the programme can be accessed widely, across socio-economic barriers, as the museum travels across the country.

See video

Printmaker Anupam Sud started featuring masks in her work following a visit to Japan where she was particularly drawn to Japanese theatre. The idea of changeability that marks the use of masks has been used potently by the artist across a series of works, including Persona.

DAG introduced the artist to New York with a retrospective of the exhibition that opened at its gallery in Fuller Building. Her work, which is widely collected, was also part of an exhibition on women artists at the gallery and has drawn a great deal of interest. The acquisition of Persona by the Smith College Museum of Art as part of its collection of art by South Asian women marks an important step in the printmaker’s global appeal.