Art Mumbai

curatorial note

The fourth edition of Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art takes forward the legacy created by the series in introducing works of the rarest historicity and quality created over a two-hundred-year period. These exemplary artworks will be unveiled at DAG’s booth at Art Mumbai before being exhibited at its gallery in New Delhi.

Iconic 04 features forty artworks including four paintings of Indian subjects by Western artists, the Company painter Sita Ram, an exceptional set of Kalighats by Becharam Das Dutta, works by the earliest practitioners of the Bengal and Bombay schools, the National Treasure artists, the Progressives and other modernists practicing in India and elsewhere in Europe and America. These include Henry Singleton, Thomas Daniell, Edwin Lord Weeks, M. V. Dhurandhar, M. A. R. Chughtai, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, S. H. Raza, Avinash Chandra, V. S. Gaitonde, G. R. Santosh, S. K. Bakre, M. F. Husain, Nasreen Mohamedi, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Natvar Bhavsar, Prabhakar Barwe, Jehangir Sabavala, A Ramachandran, J Swaminathan, and Rameshwar Broota, among others.

As previously, eminent scholars, historians and collectors have contributed essays on these works for the accompanying book, adding to our knowledge of these well-known as well as lesser-known artists whose contributions have enriched the unbroken tradition of Indian art stretching back to thousands of years.