BANGALORE: Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase an important selection of works by modern masters and contemporary artists at its annual Summer Online Art Auction. With a total of 65 lots, the auction includes a wide variety of paintings, sculptures and installations by leading artists including S H Raza, Tyeb Mehta, Jogen Chowdhury, Manjit Bawa, G Ravinder Reddy, Bharti Kher and Jitish Kallat. The auction will take place online at www.saffronart.com on June 15-16, 2011.Saffronart’s 2011 Summer Online Auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art presents an impressive array of noteworthy masterpieces of exceptional quality and provenance. Highlights of this sale include a wide range of paintings by modern masters like S H Raza, Tyeb Mehta, F N Souza and Jogen Chowdhury, as well as outstanding works by contemporary artists such as Bharti Kher, Anju Dodiya, Jitish Kallat and G Ravinder Reddy.Among the highlights of this sale is S.H. Raza’s exquisite 1951 painting titled ‘Carcassonne’. On his move to France in the early 1950s, Raza began experimenting with orchestration in his drawings and paintings using as elements of construction the houses and churches of rural France. Although inspired by the French countryside, these new landscapes were devoid of human presence and did not indicate any particular time or place.Another significant modern work on offer is Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Untitled (Kali)’ from 1998. An associate of the Bombay-based Progressive Artists’ Group, Tyeb Mehta’s career spanned several decades, styles, and media. Born in Gujarat in 1925, the artist’s first forays into the world of art were as a budding cinematographer in the wake of the second world war. Later, in part because the religious rioting during the partition of India drastically circumscribed his activities, Mehta turned to painting, enrolling at the Sir J J School of Art in Bombay. Some of the contemporary highlights of the catalogue are G. Ravinder Reddy’s iconic ‘Gopika’ from 2003; Bharti Kher’s 2007 bindis and velour fabric on painted wooden panel titled ‘Rugged Terrain’; and Jitish Kallat’s monumental 2002 painting ‘Italics (War Dance).The sale will take place online on June 15-16. Collectors may place bids at Saffronart’s website www.saffronart.com, or via Saffronart’s proprietary Blackberry and iPhone mobile applications.
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