Indo-American Arts Council & SOTHEBYS are delighted to invite you to   An Exclusive Preview of the Sotheby's Fall Preview of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art including Indian Miniature Paintings.    A Reception with Dr. Beth Citron, Assistant Curator RMA, and Priyanka Mathew, Head of Sale, Modern and Contemporary South Asian art, Sothebys.   at Sotheby's, 1334 York Ave @ 72nd Street, NYC Monday September 12th at 5: 00pm.

5:00 pm :Please join Dr. Beth Citron, Assistant Curator, RMA for a lectured titled Approaching Abstraction in Modernist South Asian Art. The talk will focus on important explorations of abstraction by pioneering modernist artists from India including V.S. Gaitonde, Nasreen Mohamedi, Zarina Hashmi, Akbar Padamsee, and Tyeb Mehta, considering the relationships between figuration and abstraction, between modernist Indian art and internationalist principles and between painting and film discourses   6:30 pm : Reception and Preview   Suggested Donation: $25:00 Please send your name and cheque to : Indo-American Arts Council, 517 East 87th St., Suite 1B, NYC 10128. The IAAC (Indo-American Arts Council) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to building an awareness of artists from the Indian subcontinent. All contributions to the IAAC are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.   Please rsvp: pandit.shwetha@gmail.com by August 30th, 2011.

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