Artists in the Collection
Five hundred voices, one uncompromising standard.
From the founding modernists — Akbar Padamsee, Amrita Sher-Gil, Chughtai — to a defining contemporary cohort across India, Pakistan and the diaspora. Arushi Arts represents painters, sculptors and printmakers across mediums: oil, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, gouache, tempera, bronze and stone.
1928 — 2020
Akbar Padamsee
Mumbai
Founding figure of Indian modernism and a leading voice of the Progressive Artists' Group; metascapes, heads, and the meditative nude.
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1913 — 1941
Amrita Sher-Gil
Budapest / Shimla
A defining presence in twentieth-century Indian painting — luminous portraits and figural compositions that bridge European modernism and the subcontinent.
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1894 — 1975
Abdur Rahman Chughtai
Lahore
Master draughtsman of the Bengal school's later flowering; mythic figures and a flowing, calligraphic line.
Selected Works →1945 — 2022
Achuthan Kudallur
Chennai
Self-taught abstractionist working in layered oil and watercolour — the inner weather of the Tamil landscape.
Selected Works →b. 1939
Akkitham Narayanan
Paris / Kerala
Geometric compositions rooted in temple ritual and yantra — a quiet, sustained dialogue between South India and the School of Paris.
Selected Works →b. 1970
Adeela Suleman
Karachi
Sculptor and installation artist working in beaten steel, found objects and embroidery; a sustained inquiry into violence, gender and ornament.
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