South Asian Paintings

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer hand painting "elephants" oil on canvas.

19th century Indian erotic gouache depicting a couple copulating while standing on a carpet with a bolster behind. The actions of the couple juxtaposed with the calm demeanor on thei...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Walking Horse" oil on canvas. Horse.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer hand painting "Tigers" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tigers" Oil on canvas.

Cuadro de aves en lago con flores pintado a mano sobre lienzo años 1970.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "tigers" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Tiger" oil on canvas.

Cuadro de aves en lago con flores pintado a mano sobre lienzo años 1970.

Cuadro de flores pintado a mano sobre tela años 1970 en tonos amarillos.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer Hand Painting "Tigers" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer Hand Painting "Tigers" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer Hand Painting "Tigers" Oil on Canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer hand painting "Elephants" oil on canvas.

Large Mural sized hindu painting on silk cloth. Measures: 44.5 x 76 x 1.5. Framed in a Gilt wood frame.

A fabulous piece of hand-painted Folk Art created in India. This painting depicts a traditional Rajasthani man in traditional dress. He wears a decorative yellow and pink dress and s...

A vintage painting by Satish Gupta, New Dehli, India, 1965. Newly framed.

Husain by Maqbul Fida Husain, Richard Bartholomew, Shiv S. Kapur · H. N. Abrams · hardback · 60 pages. A terrific copy of one of the best monographs on this important Indian artist. Illustrated in color and black & white. 60 pages of text and 192 illustrations. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition 1972. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. Text by Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S. Kapur. Includes 192 illustrations with 53 tipped in color plates. A fine and tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket price clipped dust jacket. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth. In a dust jacket. Title: Maqbool Fida Husain Author: BARTHOLOMEW, Richard and Shiv S. Kapur - Maqbool Fida Husain Book Condition Used PublisherHarry N. Abrams Place Of Publication New YorkDate Published1972 Keywords: Art Monographs. Maqbool Fida Husain Born ; 17 September 1915 Pandharpur, Maharashtra, British India Died : 9 June 2011 (aged 95) London, England, UK Nationality Indian (1915-2010) Qatari (2010–2011) Education Sir J. J. School of Art Known for Painting, drawing, writer, filmmaker Notable work Meenaxi a tale of three cities Through the eyes of a painter Movement Progressive Art Group Awards Padma Shri (1966) Padma Bhushan (1973) Padma Vibhushan (1991) Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Progressive Artist's Group, or "PAG of Bombay" used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after The Partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. Early in his painting career, and until his death, he enjoyed depicting the lively and free spirit of horses in many of his works. Often referred to as the "Picasso of India", Husain is the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artist of the 20th century. Husain is primarily known for his paintings, but is also known for his drawings and his work as a printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker. Some of his later works stirred controversy, as they depicted traditional Deities of India in non traditional ways. He also directed a few movies. In 1967, he received the National Film Award for Best Experimental Film for Through The Eyes of a Painter.[3] In 2004, he directed Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, a film he worked on with his artist son Owais Husain, which was screened in the Marché du Film section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Husain was born on 17 september 1915 in Pandharpur to a Sulaymani Bohra family who trace their roots back to Gujarat within the last 200 years, and then originally to Yemen. He picked up taste in art through studying calligraphy while he stayed at a Madraasa in Baroda. Husain attended the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai. Early in his career Husain painted cinema posters in Mumbai. To earn extra money, he worked for a toy company designing and building toys. He often travelled to Gujarat to paint landscapes when he could afford to. This was a clique of young artists who wished to break with the nationalist traditions established by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde, engaged at an international level. The artists cite "The Partition" of India and Pakistan 14 August 1947, with its resulting religious rioting and heavy loss of life as their reason for forming The Progressive Artist's Group in Bombay in December 1947. The artists saw the Partition as a "turning point" for India, and their new style of art was urged on by, and was also a turning point for, (modern) Indian Art. Husain's first solo exhibit was in 1952 in Zurich. His first U.S.A. exhibit was at India House...

Pair Antique 19th Century Indian miniature Mica paintings C.1830 Indian Company School A pair of 19th Century Indian gouache paintings on mica. M...

PRESENTING a GLORIOUS Contemporary piece of Art by a recognized Indian Master – C J Anthony Doss – The Temptation 1957 . This piece has impeccable Provenance ! It was purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Sotheby’s New York Auction on 20th September 2005. Sale No: 8111 Lot No. 223. Sotheby’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. This sale was titled “Indian and Southeast Asian Art”. The Lot is described as: “C.J. Anthony Doss (b. 1933) THE TEMPTATION. Signed and dated ‘C J A Doss/57’ lower right. Oil on canvas laid on board. 27.5 by 20.5 in (69.9 by 52 cm.) The Provenance is given as: “Property from the Collection of Mr. Artur Isenberg”. The painting carried an Auction estimate of USD 2,000 to USD 4,000. Allowing for inflation alone this would be over $6,000 in today’s value. As an added bonus and proof of authenticity the painting still retains it’s original Sotheby’s Lot No. Label. It has substantially increased in value over the years as a HIGHLY DESIRABLE piece from an exhibited and highly collected Modern Indian Master painter. C.J. Anthony Doss is a very highly regarded and widely exhibited, Indian painter. He was born in 1933 and died in 2008. DAG Modern in Mumbai featured Doss’s work. Doss represented India at biennales in Paris and Sao Paulo. He was also a prominent member of the South Indian Society of Painters. His works are in Indian museums...

Woman and Stairs’ by Jeet Chhabda. Original collage on canvas with a beautiful handmade frame. Various stamps and identification markings to back. Signed and dated to reverse by arti...

Indian school of the mid-20th century. "Musicians". Oil on canvas. With perforation. Size: 174 x 110 cm; 150 x 112.5 cm (frame). Formally, the piece follows the language of Indi...

Head study with townscape Beyond’ by Jeet Chhabda. Original collage on canvas. Signed and dated to reverse by artist 1982. Additional information: H 43 cm (H 16 inches) W 53 cm ...

Egyptian Figures’ by Jeet Chhabda. Original collage on canvas. Signed and dated to reverse by artist 1979. Original stretcher and frame. Additional information: H 76.5 cm (H 30 i...

Mughal print after a 16th century Indian hand painting in wood gilt frame. Indian Mughal School, illuminated India Rajasthan Indian Mughal School, illumi...

20th century Indian Mughal School painting of figures in landscape India, Circa 1960s A fine example in subtle earth-tone organic colors of two beauties in landscape with a seate...

Cuadro pintado a mano de aves con cenefa años 1970.

This Bengali unsigned  oil on canvas was purchased in Dhaka in the 70's alongside a Quamrul Hassan one. It is very much in the style of of Mohammad Kibria...

A pair of 19th century Indian erotic gouaches depicting copulating couples engaging in different positions. The actions of the couples juxtaposed with the calm demeanor on their face...

Oil painting on canvas with a costumbrist scene framed in Bamboo.

This group of three miniatures are of outstanding quality. He is clearly an important noble shown in richly embroidered clothes with a dagger and pearl necklace. He is probably Akbar...

Large Pichhavai Hindu Painting of Radha and Krishna with Female Gopis. Pichhwai Hindu Painting of Krishna and Radha framed under glass. Kris...

An antique Indian painting from the 19th century depicting Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion sitting on a dragon. Created in India during the 19th century, this large painting features Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion, sitting on the head of a dragon. Her right foot on a lotus flower, Guanyin wears an ornate headdress and elegant clothes. The painting itself measures 27.5"W x 53.5" H and has been set inside a custom frame. With its vivid colors and elegant subject, this 19th century Indian painting...

An antique Indian painting from the 19th century depicting Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion sitting on a dragon. Created in India during the 19th century, this large painting features Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion, sitting on the head of a dragon, fluffy clouds adorning the painting's lower section. Her right foot on a lotus flower, Guanyin wears an ornate headdress and elegant clothes. The painting itself measures 30.5"W x 53.5" H and has been set inside a custom frame. Its peaceful subject will make this 19th century Indian painting...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

1970s Spanish white eagle hand drawn painting canvas with frame.

A framed Indian ceremonial Hindu deity from the mid 20th century, hand-painted on canvas. Created in India during the midcentury period, this scene, hand-p...

Modern 1970s Spanish two parrots hand drawn painting canvas with frame.

An early 2010s untitled nude figure study impressionist painting on art board by well-known Pakistani artist Mahnoor Shah. Sensitively depicted fem...

A beautiful hand painted portrait of an elephant in full Indian wedding regalia. The animal is shown mid-stride and is covered in a green, red, and gold cloth. A blue and gold styliz...

A British School watercolor of Kandariya Mahadeva Temple at Khajuraho, Located in Central India, Watercolor over pencil on paper, unframed measures 19 3/8"-inches high x 12 3/4"-inches wide, Framed measures 28 1/4"-inches high x 21 1/4"-inches wide, inscribed in pencil on the lower part; "32 Khandaria Mahadev Temple Khajraho". Framed with silk matting.

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer hand painting "Horse walking" oil on canvas Caballo 181x115.

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces at the Musee d'Orsay by Anne Distel, Genieve Lacambre, Sylvie Gache-Patin, et al. Musee d'Orsay Impressionist and Post-Impressioni...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Vulture" oil on canvas.

Finely executed 18th century Indian Court painting. Gouache heightened with gold on paper. Krishna with Radha and other Gopis in a palace settin...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Fantastic animal" oil on canvas.

1970s Jaime Parlade designer hand painting "Fantastic animal" oil on canvas.

Lot of nine 19th century Indian "Company School" miniature gouache paintings on mica. Shows nine men in different white attire. "Company School" paintin...

Painting on canvas of a Hindu temple with a charming naive style and vibrant colors reminiscent of Indian textiles. Signed in the lower right H Cole, and ...

A fine late 18th century, early 19th century watercolour of an Indian shrub with yellow flowers. By Janet Dick. A paper label on the reverse is inscribed ‘Drawn while the artist w...

1985 hyperrealist relief painting of a hand drawn horse shaped dagger using vivid colors, including gold gilding. Signed Ramesh Sharma.

1985 hyperrealist relief painting of a hand drawn flower decorated dagger using vivid colors, including gold gilding. Signed Ramesh Sharma.  

A fine portrait of a Raja, 19th century Mughal, India, opaque pigments on paper laid on a card. Oval measures 4 7/8" inches x 4" inches, framed and matted. Frame size is 10 1' inches...

1950s framed collage painting composed of 9 small hand drawn Indian palaces.

1985 Indian artist hyperrealist relief painting of a hand drawn pitcher using vivid colors, including gold gilding.

Hand-painted batik in orange, scarlet, saffron, green, brown and black. Several vignettes featuring Indian men and women in daily activities such as pipe smoking and music playing, a...