S H Raza, 'Rajasthan', 1972 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Saffronart President and Co-Founder Minal Vazirani examines the significance of S H Raza's 1972 painting, Rajasthan, which represents a crucial period of transition in his artistic practice during the 1970s, driven by a renewed engagement with India. Drawing on the ancient Rasa theory in Indian aesthetics and Jain and Rajput miniature traditions, he evokes the scorching desert landscape and bright textiles of Rajasthan. Colour takes on a heightened importance not just as a formal element but also for its strong emotive value.

Akbar Padamsee, ‘Untitled’, 1968 and ‘Untitled (Portrait of a Man)’, 1962 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart Co-Founder and President Minal Vazirani outlines a pivotal decade in Akbar Padamsee's art through two remarkable paintings. Both works, a portrait made towards the beginning of the 1960s and a landscape made towards the end, strike a delicate balance of emotion and the cerebral to express an innate solitude.

Nicholas Roerich, 'Qaraqorum (Karakoram)', 1938 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale 2025, 27 September 2025

Saffronart Co-Founder and President Minal Vazirani offers a glimpse into National Treasure Artist Nicholas Roerich's transcendent paintings of the Himalayas which were not just exquisite landscapes but symbols of his own spiritual journey and eternal search for the divine.

From the Collection of Krishna and Jean Riboud | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart Co-Founder and President Minal Vazirani looks back on the lives of Krishna and Jean Riboud, among the most influential and celebrated patrons of the arts of the late 20th century. Five exceptional works by V S Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee, M F Husain, and Jagdish Swaminathan from the Ribouds' collection go under the hammer at Saffronart's landmark 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, offering collectors the rare opportunity to share in their remarkable legacy.

V S Gaitonde, 'Untitled', 1970 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale 2025

Watch as Saffronart Co-Founder and President Minal Vazirani reflects on the layered complexity of V S Gaitonde's "non-objective" art and his intuitive yet restrained control over light, colour, texture and space, exemplified through this 1970 painting, among five works on offer from the storied collection of Krishna and Jean Riboud.

Edwin Lord Weeks, 'Muttra (Mathura)', 1883 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart President and co-founder Minal Vazirani sheds light on the technical brilliance of Edwin Lord Weeks’ 1883 landscape of a Mathura ghat. Painted at the height of Orientalism, his works express a quiet affinity for the scenery and people of the Subcontinent whom he renders entirely without sensationalism.

M F Husain, 'Mahabharata', 1990 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani guides us through M F Husain’s monumental sweeping survey of the Indian epic Mahabharata, bringing ancient tropes into the modern world through the language and techniques of cinema. This work was especially commissioned for the opening of The Nehru Gallery of Indian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1990, where Husain was the only living Indian artist invited to exhibit his work.

F N Souza, 'Six Gentlemen of Our Times', 1955 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani looks at how F N Souza ruthlessly upended the conventions of portraiture to create a distinctive, archetypal male head, through which he deployed an unsparing critique of the powerful and the elite. His series of portraits, Six Gentlemen of Our Times, captures him at his creative peak as he made an indelible mark on the 1950s British art scene.

Jehangir Sabavala, 'The Anchorite', 1983 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani contemplates Jehangir Sabavala's 1983 painting of a towering anchorite that can be read as a metaphor for the artist's own personal journey in pursuit of beauty, perfection and the sublime.

Tyeb Mehta, 'Trussed Bull', 1956 | 25th Anniversary Evening Sale, 27 September 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani walks us through one of Tyeb Mehta’s first major trussed bull paintings, an image of raw intensity constructed with care to convey an elemental agony.

Celebrating Tyeb Mehta's Birth Centenary | July 26, 2025

On the evening of July 26, the Saffronart Foundation and the Tyeb Mehta Foundation came together to commemorate the birth centenary of one of India’s most iconic modernists, Tyeb Mehta.
In a vibrant celebration of his legacy, the two foundations unveiled a series of tributes, from awarding scholarships to launching a limited-edition portfolio and a lecture by Ranjit Hoskote. The night was a fitting homage to the remarkable artist whose influence continues to shape Indian modern art.

Ram Kumar, 'Untitled', Circa 1950s and 'Benares Landscape', 1997 | Summer Online Auction, 18 - 19 June 2025

Saffronart Senior Vice President Abha Housego examines Ram Kumar's mastery of the abstract landscape, which would come to define his oeuvre, as well as the immense influence that the eternal city of Benares had on his art even decades after his first visit in 1960.

Krishen Khanna, ‘Untitled’, Circa early 1980s and ‘Figure’ | Summer Online Auction, 18 - 19 June 2025

As Krishen Khanna celebrates his centenary this year, Saffronart Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal delves into two of Khanna's works that embody his humanistic outlook as an artist. These paintings are an empathetic exploration of the urban margins that prioritise painterly expression.

Jehangir Sabavala, 'The Four Milk-Maids', 1954 | Summer Online Auction, 18 - 19 June 2025

Saffronart Senior Vice President Anu Nanavati reflects on this vivid 1954 painting by Jehangir Sabavala from a formative period in his early artistic career, soon after his return from Europe. Reacquainting himself with the Indian landscape, he skilfully balanced formal technique and personal expression, adapting his training in Impressionism and Cubism to capture India's distinctive environment to striking effect.

S H Raza, 'Bindu (Germination)', 1991 | Summer Online Auction, 18 - 19 June 2025

Saffronart Senior Vice President Abha Housego explores the significance of the 'bindu' as a defining motif in S H Raza's art, which takes centerstage in this diptych from his later oeuvre. The painting is not just a testament to his mastery of non-representational art but a cosmological map that invites the viewer to glimpse the profound mysteries of the universe.