Who We Work With
Each of these is a different problem. The house treats them differently, and says so plainly at the outset.
AB / PRIVATE
Collectors
Buying to a thesis rather than to a mood. The house advises on which period of an artist carries the weight, keeps the documentation in order, and revalues the holding when it needs revaluing rather than when someone remembers.
Family offices
Most families hold more art than their records show. The house catalogues what exists, values it for insurance and succession, and puts the whole holding on one register so the next generation inherits a list rather than a puzzle.
First purchases
A first work is often a drawing or an original print by a significant hand rather than a canvas. That is how most serious collections begin, and it is a better education than any amount of reading.
Estates and succession
Valuation for probate, division between heirs, and the decision about what to keep. This work begins with a collector and continues with a family who did not choose the collection. It is done slowly and without pressure to sell.
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Corporate
Handled as a brief, not a shopping list: the spaces, the sightlines, the light, the budget and the timetable established first. Every work arrives with a written valuation and documentation fit for the company asset register and its insurers.
Hospitality
Volume, coherence and durability, against a fixed opening date. The constraint is rarely taste; it is scale, light exposure, security and a programme that must not slip.
Museums and public
Acquisition support, provenance research, condition reporting and loan documentation, prepared to the standard a public collection is obliged to meet.
Design
Work to the scheme and its constraints. Dimensioned proposals, hanging guidance, and dealings direct with the designer or with the client, whichever the designer prefers.
Advisers
Independent written valuations and condition assessments for advisers whose clients hold art, prepared so the adviser can put them in front of a committee.
Artists and estates
Artists seeking representation and estates managing an artist's legacy. See submitting work to the house.
AB / TERRITORY
The house is in Mumbai and works by appointment. It acts for clients across India and for Indian collectors abroad, principally in New York, London and Dubai, where the market for modern Indian art is deepest outside the country.
Works ship worldwide, crated to museum standard and insured door to door. Modern and contemporary works move under normal customs procedure. Antiquities may not leave India except under a permit from the central government, and the house does not deal in them.
The house
Mumbai
Works shown privately, one client at a time, by appointment.
Acting for clients in
New York
Where the highest prices for modern Indian art have been set.
Acting for clients in
London
A long established centre for South Asian art and its scholarship.
Acting for clients in
Dubai
The nearest major hub for collectors across the Gulf.
The house keeps one address, in Mumbai. Where we say we act for clients in another city, we mean exactly that and nothing more.
Enquiries
A wall, a lobby, a collection, or a question about something you already own. The Client Advisory desk answers the same day.
Write to Client Advisory Call +91 75062 45557