India Art Fair

Among the works on view are a superlative family portrait by Raja Ravi Varma—widely recognised as his first ever commissioned painting, making it the first painting ever of modern Indian art; rare works by other National Treasure artists such as Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, and Sailoz Mookherjea; lyrical poetic compositions by masters who would go on to be leading lights of art in Pakistan—Allah Bux and M. A. R. Chughtai; Western interpretations of early India through the eyes of Thomas Daniell, and a later work in the genre by Edwin Lord Weeks; a fine Early Bengal work by an unknown artist on Krishna and Radha; a divine love story in the realistic style by M. V. Dhurandhar; an unusual mother-child painting inspired by Christian iconography by Jamini Roy; path-breaking experiments in abstraction by Prabhakar Barwe, S. K. Bakre, Shanti Dave, and Sohan Qadri; a representative work from his important Boitorini series by Nirode Mazumdar; peak career works by the Progressives and their adherents such as F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, Krishen Khanna and Ram Kumar; a sculpture by early modernist Dhanraj Bhagat; and a unique indigenist canvas by Madhvi Parekh featuring her signature playful figures.