Christie’s online auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, taking place from 15-28 March, complements our live auctionof works from this category, to be held in New York on 22 March.

This online auction presents a wide variety of works by well-known artists from South Asia and its diaspora at accessible estimates for new and young collectors. The catalogue includes a range of exceptional figurative works by modernists Tyeb Mehta, Maqbool Fida Husain, Francis Newton Souza and Bikash Bhattacharjee, alongside early landscapes by Benodebehari Mukherjee, Avinash Chandra, Kanwal Krishna and Walter Langhammer, and abstract paintings by Sayed Haider Raza, Biren De, Laxman Shreshtha, Ismail Gulgee and Mohammed Kibria. Together with important groups of lots by artists from Pakistan and Bangladesh, the catalogue is rounded out with a selection of contemporary works by artists including Atul Dodiya, Sheila Makhijani and Seher Shah.