25th Anniversary | Looking Back at the Second Decade of Saffronart

We continue on to our second decade in our look back on Saffronart’s 25-year journey. Watch this space for more to come!

25th Anniversary | Looking Back at the First Decade of Saffronart

As we mark a significant milestone in Saffronart's journey, our 25th anniversary, we look back on memorable moments from the decades gone by, beginning with our very first few years. We're just getting started, so stay tuned for more.

The Works of Arpita Singh | Winter Online Auction, 17-18 December 2024

Saffronart Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal reflects on the playfully intelligent works of Arpita Singh. These works from the 1990s handle serious topics like female interiority in relation to the passage of time and the effect of external realities on one’s inner life with a touch of whimsy.

M F Husain, 'Untitled', 2002 | Winter Online Auction, 17 - 18 December 2024

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani delves into M F Husain's engagement with the Indian village across his career. The present lot reflects the deep respect that he had for the Indian farmer and his own connection to rural life even after he had risen to prominence as one of India’s leading modern artists.

M F Husain, 'Untitled', Circa 1960s | Winter Online Auction, 17 - 18 December 2024

Watch as Saffronart President and Co-Founder Minal Vazirani explores the significance of the horse in M F Husain's oeuvre. The animal, which held a deep, multifaceted significance for the artist, came alive on his canvas with an undeniable energy and vitality that made it synonymous with his art.

Jehangir Sabavala,'Incarnadine', 1960 | Winter Online Auction, 17 - 18 December 2024

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani examines the significance of Incarnadine, a striking 1960 painting by Jehangir Sabavala with rich red tonal variations, made during an important turning point in his artistic career.

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.