The Works of Ganesh Pyne | Evening Sale, 14 September 2024

Saffronart Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal traces Ganesh Pyne’s development as an artist through a selection of his works going under the hammer at Saffronart’s Evening Sale. On auction will be Pyne’s skillful and imaginative student sketchbooks, a 1966 work from a pivotal period in his career, a haunting mature tempera on canvas, and a 1990s paper work.

The Works of M F Husain | Evening Sale, 14 September 2024

Saffronart Senior Vice President Abha Housego surveys a rich selection of works by M F Husain coming up for auction in our flagship Evening Sale. The works, covering decades of his career, are a testament to Husain’s gift for assimilating his wide-ranging influences into a celebrated style.

S H Raza, ‘Untitled’, 1957 and ‘The Earth’, 1986 | Evening Sale, 14 September 2024

Watch as Saffronart President and Co-Founder Minal Vazirani takes us through the progression of S H Raza’s ever-inventive oeuvre and his masterful use of form over the decades informed by his ‘le sens plastique’.

Edwin Lord Weeks, 'Hindu Temple, Bombay', Circa 1884 | Evening Sale, 14 September 2024

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani delves into the artistic and historical significance of an exceptional painting of a temple near Bombay by eminent 19th-century American Orientalist Edwin Lord Weeks, which leads Saffronart's Evening Sale 2024.

F N Souza, 'Untitled (Veiled Nude)', 1964 and 'Californian Girl', 1968 | Francis Newton Souza Day Sale, 14 September

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani examines the evolution of the female figure in F N Souza's oeuvre and the various influences that shaped this central theme in his art.

F N Souza, 'Untitled (Pieta)', 1987 | Francis Newton Souza Day Sale, 14 September 2024

Watch as Saffronart President and Co-Founder Minal Vazirani explores the significance of F N Souza's interpretation of the Pieta, a representation of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Christ after his Descent From the Cross.

F N Souza, 'Red Landscape', 1989 | Summer Online Auction, 26-27 June 2024

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani delves into F N Souza's prowess as a painter and draughtsman as seen in 'Red Landscape'. The 1989 work masterfully subverts the idyllic image of the landscape as a genre through bold, frenzied strokes of paint and the artist's signature thick, black lines and technique of distortion.

The Works of M F Husain | Summer Online Auction, 26-27 June 2024

Saffronart Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal takes us through the many works from M F Husain’s formidable oeuvre that go under the hammer at our Summer Online Auction in June 2024, including several impressive canvases that revisit his favourite artistic preoccupations through his life.

S H Raza, ‘Untitled (Village)’, 1956 | Summer Online Auction, 26-27 June 2024

Watch as Saffronart Senior Vice President Abha Housego explores the brilliance of ‘Untitled (Village)’, a 1956 oil on canvas work by S H Raza where he used his newfound sense of pictorial construction to pay homage to the landscapes of the French countryside and his home state of Madhya Pradesh.

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, 'Talisman: Taveez', 2001 | Summer Online Auction, 26-27 June 2024

Watch as Saffronart Co-founder and President Minal Vazirani highlights the importance of ‘Talisman: Taveez’, a 2001 work by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh that explores cultural multiplicity by assembling together diverse trans-historical sources and that is the foundation of his ‘Talisman’ series.

Rameshwar Broota, ‘The Lost Self’, 1971 | Spring Live Auction, 13 March 2024

Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal reflects on the mastery of ‘The Lost Self’, a 1971 work by Rameshwar Broota from his acclaimed ‘Ape’ series which used primates to depict the gluttonous barbarism of the ruling class with skill and humour.

M F Husain, 'Tearing Apart', 1970 | Spring Live Auction, 13 March 2024

Saffronart Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal offers insight into one of M F Husain's most iconic subjects, the horse, as seen in his 1970 canvas 'Tearing Apart'. The work illustrates how Chinese art invigorated his own depictions of the animal, imbuing them with an expressiveness of line and a renewed sense of vigour.

Amrita Sher-Gil, 'Portrait of Denyse', Circa 1930s | Spring Online Auction, 13-14 March 2024

Watch as Saffronart Co-Founder and President Minal Vazirani explores the significance of Amrita Sher-Gil's 1930s canvas, 'Portrait of Denyse'. The work is a rare early example of her tremendous talent for depicting the female form and formed the foundation for some of her most well-known paintings of the late 1930s.

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, ‘Sursagar’, 1987 | Spring Live Auction, 13 March 2024

Watch as Saffronart Co-founder and President Minal Vazirani discusses the significance of ‘Sursagar’, a 1987 work by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh that employs his characteristic imaginative narrative figuration style using recurring motifs of personal and cultural import from his oeuvre.

Bhupen Khakhar, 'Untitled (Champaner)', 1996 | Spring Live Auction, 13 March 2024

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani discusses the significance of 'Untitled (Champaner)', a 1996 canvas by Bhupen Khakhar, featuring his friend and patron, architect Karan Grover. It exemplifies his stylistic choices of the decade and is an eminent example of the rare honesty and sensitivity that permeates his art.