Sotheby's - Sales of Indian Art - March 19, 2008 Sotheby’s spring sale of Indian Art in New York will be held on March 19,
2008, and will include important Modern paintings by M.F. Husain, J. Swaminathan, Rameshwar Broota, F. N. Souza & others
India. Another highlight of the sale is a 1968 Untitled
landscape by Ram Kumar. Estimated at
$120/180,000, the work is executed in the artist’s
trademark earth brown and ocher tones and is
typical of his paintings from the late 1960s that mark a decisive
stage in the progression of his style towards pure
abstraction. In works from this period the elements of the
landscape are reduced to barely recognizable forms that
seem to meld into each other in fluid and shifting vertical
and horizontal planes, as seen in the present painting.
An Untitled work by Rameshwar Broota (pictured here,
est. $50/70,000) depicts a portrait of a man, but an
unsettling disquiet surrounds the figure, almost as if details are being erased. As with his previous
paintings and most recent works, this portrait appears to comment on the inevitable decay of the
human body. Other works featured in the sale include Peeli Dhoop by M.F. Husain (est.
$100/150,000), an abstract depiction of a settlement in bright green and yellow, and an Untitled
abstract work by Jagdish Swaminathan (est. $180/220,000).
*Estimates do not include buyer’s premium
Sotheby’s New York Spring 2008 Asian Art Auction Schedule:
March 17 Contemporary Art Asia: China Japan Korea
March 18 Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 19 Indian Art
March 19 Indian and Southeast Works of Art, Including Miniatures
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring 2008 Auction Schedule at the Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre:
April 8 Fine Chinese Paintings
April 8 Modern & Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings
April 9 Contemporary Chinese Art
April 10 Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite
April 10 Important Watches
April 11 Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Sotheby’s London Spring 2008 Asian Art Auction Schedule
May 14 Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Sotheby’s Paris Spring 2008 Asian Art Auction Schedule
June 12 Arts of Asia
**Sales information and dates are subject to change**
