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Figurative Paintings and Portraits

Figures, faces and groups: a girl in profile, a family, dancers, a seated Buddha, friends standing in a line. Here the person, drawn or painted, is the subject.

Artists and makers in this collection: Thota Vaikuntam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare, M. F. Husain, After Henri Matisse.

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Thota Vaikuntam, Telangana lady, 2004: a seated woman with an olive-green face, red bindi, stacked gold bangles and a black sari dotted with white, on a cream ground.

Thota Vaikuntam (b. 1942)

Telangana lady, 2004

Acrylic on canvas board

16 x 20 inches (about 41 x 51 cm)

Price₹10,00,000

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AB/2026/0049

Unattributed, A woman in a blue sari, worked in thread: a woman seen from behind in a purple blouse and a deep blue sari, a purple flower in her bun and one hand raised to her face, set against dark green walls with carved-stone patterns.

Contemporary Indian

A woman in a blue sari, worked in thread

Thread embroidery

Price₹75,000

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AB/2026/0079

Unattributed, The golden face with lotus and leaves: a round canvas of a closed-eyed face in gold, covered in black-lined lotus flowers, leaves and scrolling foliage, set on a dark ground.

Contemporary Indian

The golden face with lotus and leaves, 2026

Painting on a round canvas

Price₹75,000

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AB/2026/0081

M. F. Husain, Women dancing before a yellow moon: a framed print of five women with raised arms dancing before a great yellow moon over water, with a boat, two small elephants and a tree hung with cloths.

M. F. Husain (1915 to 2011)

Women dancing before a yellow moon

Numbered edition print

PriceOn request

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AB/2026/0082

Unattributed, a woman at the ghat, making her offering: a woman in a white sari stands knee-deep in a river at dawn, lowering an offering of flowers and lamps to the water with one hand and holding a brass vessel in the other, with temples, stepped ghats and umbrellas rising behind her in brown and gold haze.

Contemporary Indian

A woman at the ghat, making her offering

Contemporary Indian

Price₹75,000

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AB/2026/0084

Questions

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What is in the figurative paintings and portraits collection?

Figures, faces and groups: a girl in profile, a family, dancers, a seated Buddha, friends standing in a line. Here the person, drawn or painted, is the subject. It holds 10 works: Telangana lady; Embrace beneath the banyan; A woman in a blue sari, worked in thread; The golden face with lotus and leaves; Women dancing before a yellow moon; A woman at the ghat, making her offering; Blue Nude, kneeling; Blue Nude, seated with crossed legs; Blue Nude, seated, arm over the head; Blue Nude, seated, knee drawn up.

Are these works for sale?

Yes. Each work is offered privately. The price is the whole price, with no buyer's premium and no deposit to enquire. Where a price is not printed, the house gives it in writing on request.