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Gallery Exhibition

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Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, Edition 05

New Delhi: 24th November 2025 – 30th January 2026
Venue: 22A Windsor Place, Janpath, New Delhi
Monday – Saturday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm

Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art series, now in its fifth edition, exploring facets of pre-modern and modern Indian art, 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 2011, 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, Chittaprosad, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Madhvi Parekh; the abstractionists Shanti Dave, Sohan Qadri and Rajendra Dhawan; and for the first time in Iconic, stunning works by Paramjit Singh, 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.

Artists

Charles D'Oyly

Nirode Mazumdar

Sita Ram

Ustad Allah Bux

In this volume, Iconic Masterpieces of Modern Indian Art, now in its fifth edition, we trace three centuries of artistic endeavour—from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century—bringing together works that illuminate the depth, diversity and transformative nature of Indian art. The collection presents a remarkable confluence of cultures and practices. While European artists such as the Daniells, Charles D’Oyly, Lord Weeks and Bauer introduced India’s landscapes, monuments and people to a global audience, local responses took shape in the Early Bengal School oils and the vibrant Kalighat pata tradition, which merged folk idioms with emerging academic styles. These interactions laid the foundation for the flowering of modern Indian art, a field in which DAG has long focused its efforts.

– Ashish Anand, CEO and Managing Director, DAG

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