Art Mumbai

curatorial note

For the third year running, DAG will showcase its prestigious Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art series at Art Mumbai, exploring facets of pre-modern and modern Indian art. Now in its fifth edition, the exhibition is a museum showcase of masters including Anglo-Indian artists, National Treasures, and those who have spearheaded Indian modern art. Bookended by works dated from 1798 to 2022, the exhibition includes unidentified artists whose contribution to Indian art is as significant as those who have forged formidable reputations.

A rare illustrated scroll on the Bhagwat Purana, Kalighat pats and an Early Bengal masterpiece will be shown alongside works by travelling artists Thomas Daniell, Charles D’Oyly and Marius Bauer; history paintings by Sita Ram, A. H. Muller, M. V. Dhurandhar and L. N. Taskar; National Treasure artists Amrita Sher-Gil, Nandalal Bose, Abanindranath Tagore and Nicholas Roerich; the Bengal masters Radhacharan Bagchi and Ganesh Haloi; modernists such as George Keyt, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, Avinash Chandra, K. K. Hebbar and Nirode Mazumdar; alongside works by Satish Gujral, S. K. Bakre, Rabin Mondal, Laxman Pai, J. Sultan Ali, Paramjit Singh, Chittaprosad, Bikash Bhattacharjee, A. Ramachandran, Gogi Saroj Pal and Madhvi Parekh; the abstractionists Shanti Dave, Sohan Qadri and Rajendra Dhawan; and for the first time in Iconic, stunning works by Amitava and Altaf.

A magnificent ode to Indian art, Iconic Masterpieces is a celebration of the best of Indian art from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first century.