Sotheby’s will be exhibiting for the first time in India works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and David Hockney. Open to the public from the 31stJanuary 2014, at the Imperial Hotel, New Delhi. The exhibition is been designed to allow Indian collectors to view selected highlights from Sotheby’s forthcoming London sale of Contemporary Art alongside highlights from its New York sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art.
The Contemporary highlights include a rare and only recently rediscovered early David Hockney portrait (Est. £150,000-200,000), an iconic Andy Warhol Dollar Sign from the collection of Jade Jagger (Est. £180,000-250,000), and a captivating work by leading Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki (Est. £300,000-400,000).
The highlights on view from the Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art sale are all fresh to the market and come from a number of distinguished American and European private collections. They include Buffalo among Flower Bed, an important landscape by Bhupen Khakhar (Est. $150,000-200,000), Maqbool Fida Husain’s dynamic canvas Untitled (Three Horses) (Est. $100,000-150,000), and Ram Kumar’s early abstract Untitled (Est. $80-120,000).
