Saffronart's Winter Online Auction 2009

Modern and Contemporary Indian Art

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NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Saffronart, India's leading auction house for Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, will host its annual Winter Online Art Auction on December 9-10, 2009. Presenting 100 lots of exceptional quality and provenance by 51 leading modern and contemporary Indian artists, the sale will take place online at www.saffronart.com.

A pioneer of online art auctions since it was founded in 2000, Saffronart is a global company with deep Indian roots. Saffronart has both broadened and simplified access to fine art and jewelry, in addition to setting global pricing benchmarks and transforming the landscape of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art. Its robust online platform and secure technology offers clients a personal, intuitive and effortless auction experience, allowing access to published prices, certificates, multiple images, histories and backgrounds of pieces, designers, and information on traditional techniques.

The upcoming Winter auction catalogue includes paintings, drawings and sculptures by celebrated modern artists Manjit Bawa, F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza, Akbar Padamsee, Tyeb Mehta and Jagdish Swaminathan, amongst others. Notable contemporary artists in the sale include Subodh Gupta, Anju Dodiya, Raqib Shaw and Jagannath Panda. With a strong focus on aesthetically significant works, the sale promises to generate great interest and demand from collectors across the globe.

Featured on the front cover of the catalogue is an untitled canvas of epic proportions by Manjit Bawa. Among the contemporary lots on offer, Subodh Gupta's 2005 untitled work, a shimmering theatre of polished stainless steel pots and pans, is featured on the back cover of the catalogue. Gupta's main concerns have been subjective value and material production and consumption. Featured for the first time at a Saffronart auction is Raqib Shaw, whose work has been celebrated in prestigious solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tate Britain in London.

The total lower and higher estimates for this auction are $3.2 million dollars and $4.2 million dollars, respectively. The sale will be accompanied by an illustrated print catalogue, also available online at www.saffronart.com, and preview events at Saffronart's gallery spaces in Mumbai and New York.

For further details on this exhibit, please contact:

Anu Nanavati Chaddha, (212) 627 5006, newyork@saffronart.com

Media Contact: Robin Davis, The Townsend Group, (203) 622 1334, robindavis@townsendgroupmedia.com

SOURCE Saffronart

2009-11-24 19:26:00