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Gallery Exhibition

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Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art Edition 04

New Delhi: 21st December 2024 – 1st February 2025
Venue: 22A Windsor Place, Janpath, New Delhi
Monday – Saturday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm

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. The exhibition 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.

Artists

A. Ramachandran

Avinash Chandra

B. Prabha

Becharam Das Dutta

Bikash Bhattacharjee

Bireswar Sen

Chittaprosad

Dhanraj Bhagat

Edwin Lord Weeks

F. N. Souza

Frank Brooks

G. R. Santosh

Henry Singleton

J. Sultan Ali

J. Swaminathan

Jamini Roy

Jehangir Sabavala

Jeram Patel

K. K. Hebbar

Laxman Pai

M. A. R. Chughtai

M. F. Husain

M. V. Dhurandhar

Madhvi Parekh

Manu Parekh

Nandalal Bose

Nasreen Mohamedi

Natvar Bhavsar

Nirode Mazumdar

Prabhakar Barwe

Rajendra Dhawan

Rameshwar Broota

S. H. Raza

S. K. Bakre

Shanti Dave

Sita Ram

Sohan Qadri

Thomas Daniell

Unidentified Artist (Early Bengal School)

V. S. Gaitonde

"Over just the Iconic series itself, we have seen the mainstreaming of important experiments in Indian art that have added greatly to its diversity. Labelled hybrid by some, they are instances of absorptions of styles and techniques from elsewhere that have led to the creation of new languages such as the Early Bengal school of oil paintings or, indeed, Company Paintings, that I consider bona fide examples of Indian art practice prevalent at the time. That we have introduced European, American, and Japanese artists to the mix, given that they travelled to India to paint Indian subjects—landscapes, portraits, or history paintings—has added increasingly interesting and newer dimensions to our understanding of ‘Indian’ art."

– Ashish Anand, CEO and Managing Director, DAG

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