Manjit Bawa, ‘Untitled’, 2000 | Winter Live Auction, 10 December 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani takes a closer look at Manjit Bawa’s unparalleled oeuvre in the history of Indian art. Bawa developed a singular calling card of fluid figures against a brilliant flat backdrop, a distinct style we see come to life in the depiction of a rosy-hued cat and a squirrel against a flat ground of vibrant green in this work.

Tyeb Mehta, 'The Face', 1961 | Winter Live Auction, 10 December 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani looks back at Tyeb Mehta's early figurative phase through a landmark 1961 painting. The work traces how exposure to Western Expressionism alongside deeply personal memories of Partition shaped his visceral style and is a powerful study of the human condition by one of India’s most influential modernists.

V S Gaitonde, 'Untitled', 1961 | Winter Live Auction, 10 December 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani traces how V S Gaitonde developed a groundbreaking form of abstraction or “non-objectivity” to communicate an inner vision through deeply atmospheric works where light, space, texture and colour converge in perfect balance.

M F Husain, ‘Untitled’ | Winter Live Auction, 10 December 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani walks us through this larger-than-life painting by M F Husain, a modernist and dynamic celebration of his beloved homeland. From the warm and vibrant colours used, to the carefully composed forms of elephants dynamically moving within a lush forest, Husain’s affection for the state of Kerala is notably present within this work.

Jehangir Sabavala, 'Mirage', 1966 | Winter Live Auction, 10 December 2025

Watch as Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani explores the significance of a vast, otherworldly landscape by Jehangir Sabavala from 1966, which transcends motif and genre. Painted during a defining decade of his career, the work is an exquisite representation of the artist's masterful technique and lifelong quest in search of aesthetic perfection and the sublime.

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.