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:: TSUNAMI ARTISTS AUCTION ::

 

 

Jonathan Torgovnik: ?BOLLYWOOD DREAMS' #54?, C-Type Photograph, 20"X24", 2000. $1500

Jonathan Torgovnik: “BOLLYWOOD DREAMS' ..............Click on the image for ZOOM

Donated by: THE ARTIST & KLOTZ/SIRMON GALLERY NEW YORK

Works include numerous solo and group exhibitions featured in the permanent collections og The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) and the Bibliotheque National De France (Paris). Award-winning photographs published in the Newsweek, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, and Paris Match among others. Jonathan Torgovnik graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

 

Satish Joshi : ?Reflections Series # 9?, Mixed media on wood,48?x36", 2001. $6,000.
Satish Joshi : “Reflections Series # 9” Click on the image for ZOOM

Donated by the Artist

Works include large-scale abstract canvases from his 1980s Light Series, monumental scale sculptures commissioned by Riverdale Country School, and a white marble male nude installed in a private setting (Breckenridge, Colorado). Former board member of the Phoenix Gallery and a founding member of the Board of Directors of Art on Main Street (Yonkers, New York). Satish is the Director of Community Arts and Artist-in-Residence at Riverdale Country School where he has just completed a 22-year tenure as Head of the Visual Arts Department.

 

April Gornik : ?Edge of the Pond?, Ukiyo-E style woodcut, 24"x30", 2004. $3,500

April Gornik : “Edge of the Pond”Click on the image for ZOOM

Recently published by Pace Editions, Inc in an edition of 55.
Donated by the Artist

Works have been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the National Museum of American Art (Washington, DC), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), the Cincinnati Museum (Cincinnato, OH), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Modern Art Museum of Art of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas), the Orlando Museum of Art (Orland, Florida), and other major public and private collections. Solo exhibitions at the the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA,), Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, NY), the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (Pepperdine Univ, Malibu, CA), Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY).

 

Michelle Suna : "Verdant Poppy Field", oil on canvas, 53"x72", 2004. $8,000.

Michelle Suna : "Verdant Poppy Field" ..........................Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Private international collectors include Eric Clapton, Claudio Casiraghi, Dieter Dierks, Ray Elvin, Corina Forstmann, Denise Kasell and Mike Taibbi. Extensive exhibitions in galleries both in New York City and the Hamptons. Michelle Suna studied art and communications at Syracuse University, interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and worked early on for the architect, Richard Meier.

 

Peter Dayton : ?Ranuculus Diptych, 2002, Xerox collage on canvas with resin. $3,000.

Peter Dayton : “Ranuculus Diptych, 2002Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by Artist and Spike Gallery

Works include exhibitions at Hampton Road Gallery (Southampton, NY), Santa Barbara Museum of Art at CUNY Graduate Art Center (New York), Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (East Hampton, NY), Devin Borden Hiram Butler (Houston, TX), Cook Fine Art (New York), AE Gallery (East Hampton, NY), Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (East Hampton, NY), Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, NY), Malca Fine Art (New York), Karen McCready


Salma Arastu :?Exchanging Flowers?, Acrylics and pen & ink on the board, 20?by20?. $2500.

Salma Arastu :“Exchanging Flowers”Click on the image for ZOOM

Donated by the Artist

Awards include First Place in the NE Pennsylvania regional juried art show at Marywood University, PA (2004) and First Place from the Lehigh Art Alliance in Lehigh Valley, PA (Spring 2004). Works have been exhibited in galleries in India, Iran, Kuwait, and in the US. Upcoming shows include exhibitions at Gallery 1199, Radford Art Museum, Penn State University Art Gallery, Lehigh University?s Mountain Top, The Hope Horn Gallery, and Mansoon Galleries.

 

Lisa Barsumian :"Jonah", Oil on linen, 28"x26", 2004. $3,000.

Lisa Barsumian :"Jonah"Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Exhibitions include Sound Shore Gallery (Westchester, NY), Zygos Gallery (Athens, Greece), Saugatuck Gallery (CT), Arts Exclusive Gallery (CT) Cooley Gallery (CT), Gallery Horizon (Paris, France), Masters Gallery (Calgary, Canada), Cymroza Art Gallery (Bombay, India), Art Space 44T (Denver, CO). Lisa received an M.F.A. from Edinboro College, PA, an M.A. from the Art Institute of Boston, and an M.A. from the School of the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

Murali Harathi :?Grand Central Façade?, Watercolor (framed), 20?x30?, 2003. $2,600.

Murali Harathi :“Grand Central Façade”Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Harathi is an emerging artist whose work is very well appreciated and collected by collectors from Easton and New York. In a short time of three years he had four shows in Easton (PA), Philadelphia New York and Plainsboro (NJ).

 

Anand Jon :?Baptism - Rise Above? 25" x 20" multimedia & oil, 2004 $10,000.

Anand Jon :“Baptism - Rise Above”Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Honors include Newsweek?s List of ?Power & Influence? bringing East and West together (2004), ?International New Star? Designer Award Fashion Week (2002-2003), Asia Society Guest of Honor 2004, Peoples Choice Award ?Best New Designer? (2002), one of Top 12 new fashion brands of the future in the world by In Style, one of "Top 21 Asians to watch out for in the 21st century" by A Magazine, one of the 25 ?Faces of the Future? by India Today, one of top 70 designers in the world selected Mayor Guiliani and the city of NY, and "One of the Top Looks of Fine Art (New York), Morris-Healy Gallery (Los Angeles/Miami/Switzerland), Florida Int Univ Art Museum (Miami, FL), Bonnie Benrubi Gallery (New York, NY), Jersey Center for the Arts (Summit, NJ), Beth Urdang Gallery (Boston, MA), Paul Morris Gallery (New York, NY), Paul Morris Gallery (New York, NY), Charles Cowles Gallery (New York, NY), Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, New York), Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art (Minneappolis, Minnnesota), Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East (East Hampton, New York), Vered Gallery (East Hampton, New York, Sotavento, Caracas, Venezuela).


Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar : "Scaffolding", Acrylic on canvas, 42"x44", 2004. $14,000.

Reeta Gidwani Karmarkar : "Scaffolding"Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Numerous awards including Gold Medal, Premio Nazionale de Pittura, Citta de Velletri, Italy & Silver Medal, UNESCO,Seoul, Korea. Work in Collections includes her work in Art Museum,Ciudad Bolivar(Venezuela),Modern Art Museum, Madrid(Spain), SICEA, Rome(Italy), National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi(India). Over 15 Murals in London & Italy including hotel foyers(Taranto, Tirrenia), facades of buildings (Tor Sapiense),churches(Taranto)and clubs(Roma,Tirrenia). Shows include Galleria Sirio, Rome, George Fredricks Gallery, Rochester,Grand Prix International d'Art Contemporaine de Monte Carlo, Galleria San Vidal, Venice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston among others. Born in India, Laureata from Accademia de Belle Arti, Rome, Reeta lives and works in Los Angeles, Ca.

 

Natvar Bhavsar : ?TEJUS VIII?, Dry pigments, acrylic medium, on 100% rag paper. 53?X43", 1992. $18,000.

Natvar Bhavsar : “TEJUS VIII”Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Honors include the John D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, participant in the Executive's Seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Aspen, Colorad, Vishva Gurjari (Gujarat, India). Shows Sundaram Tagore Gallery (New York), ACP Viviane Ehrli Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Dialectica Gallery (New York), ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie (Cologne, Germany), Bose-Pacia Modern Gallery (New York), Gloria Luria Gallery (Bay Harbor, Florida), and Pundole Art Gallery (Bombay, India).

 

Bivas Chaudhuri : ?Untitled?, Acrylic, 2'x2', 2003. $5,000 .

Bivas Chaudhuri : “Untitled”Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Solo exhibitions includes Lalit Kala Academy (New Delhi), Resnick Gallery (, New York), Chemould Art Gallery (India), Alternative Art Gallery (India), School Of Design (New York, Y), Asian American Art Center (New York), the Center Art Gallery (India), Brooklyn College Gallery (Brooklyn), and Westbeth Gallery (New York). Group exhibitions include The Gallery (New York), Asian American Art Center (New York), Y.W.C.A. (Brooklyn), Gallery at 678 (New York), Laguardia Gallery (Brooklyn), Permanent Mission of India (New York), Bharatya Bidya Bhavan (New York, ) and the Queens Public Library (Queens,), Jacob Javit Center (New York) and the Indian Society of Oriental Art Birla Academy (India), West Bengal State Academy of Fine Arts (India).

Anna Walinska :"Collage with Colored Squares (aka "Shan Boogie Woogie"), Oil on Shan paper with construction paper collage, 20"x14", $10,000.

Anna Walinska :"Collage with Colored Squares (aka "Shan Boogie Woogie").............................Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by Rosina Rubin

ANNA WALINSKA (1906-1997) was born in London, grew up in New York, and lived for extended periods in Paris and Burma. Walinska is best known or her work of the Modernist period, her work on the theme of the Holocaust, and her portraits of well-known figures in art and politics, Including Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson, and Arshile Gorky (whose first New York exhibition she sponsored). During her lifetime, Walinska's work was exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum and the Salon des Independents (Paris). Her paintings and drawings are included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Johnson Museum at Cornell, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem and others in the U.S. and abroad
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Sohan Qadri : "Tirtha VII", Ink and dye on paper, 45"x33", 2001. $8,500.

Sohan Qadri : "Tirtha VII"Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Exhibitions include Sundaram Tagore Gallery (New York, NY), Art and Deal (New Delhi, India), Tibet House (New York, NY), Gallery Shades (Singapore), Gallery 7 (Toronto, Canada), Alliance Francais (Nairobi, Kenya), Court Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark), Gallery Untitled (Los Angeles, CA), Dhoomimal Gallery (New Delhi, India), Galerie International (Stockholm, Sweden), Chemould Gallery (Mumbair, India), Taide Museo (Tampere, Finland), and Compendium Gallery (London, England).

 

Krishna Reddy : "Clown and Flying Swans", 20"x14",1980/"Clown Dissolving", 20" by 14", 1996. Together for $6,000.

Krishna Reddy : "Clown and Flying Swans"........

Krishna Reddy : "Clown and Flying Swans"..................Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Works exhibited in 200 international solo exhibitions. Over 70 honors and awards. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), National Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Libraryr of Congress (Washington, D.C.), British Museum (London, England), Albertine Museum (Vienna, Austria), Chicago Art Institute (Chicago, IL). Krishna was previously the Co-Director of Atelier 17 (Paris, France) and Department Head of Kalakshetra (Chennai, India) and is currently a Professor and Artist-in-Residence at New York University.

 

James Brown : "Black Elysium IX", Oil on canvas. 51.5"x62.75". $20,000.

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James Brown : "Black Elysium IX"Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by the Artist

Solo exhibitions include Anthony Grant(New York, NY), Sander(Berlin, Germany), La Caja Negra(Madrid, Spain), Museo di San Severo (Naples, Italy), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo(Malaga, Spain), A.C.& T (Tokyo, Japan), Der Bruecke (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

 

Matthieu Ricard : Four original prints: "Jumping Monks", "Horses by Mt. Kailash", "Prayer Flags", "Dancers". Framed original limited edition prints. 16"x24?. Together for $10,000.

Matthieu Ricard : Four original prints: "Jumping Monks", "Horses by Mt. Kailash", "Prayer Flags", "Dancers"...Matthieu Ricard : Four original prints: "Jumping Monks", "Horses by Mt. Kailash", "Prayer Flags", "Dancers"

Matthieu Ricard : Four original prints: "Jumping Monks", "Horses by Mt. Kailash", "Prayer Flags", "Dancers"...Matthieu Ricard : Four original prints: "Jumping Monks", "Horses by Mt. Kailash", "Prayer Flags", "Dancers".........Click on the image for ZOOM
Donated by Matthieu Ricard and by the Rubin Museum of Art.

Author and photographer of ?Journey to Enlightenment? and ?Monk Dancers of Tibet?. Collaborated with Olivier and Danielle Follmi on Buddhist Himalayas. Cinematographer and writer of the video, ?Sprit of Tibet.? Still photographs have appeared in books and magazines throughout the world. His other books translated into English include The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father, the philosopher Jean-Francois Revel, and The Quantum and the Lotus about science and Buddhism. Works are bestsellers in France and published in more than twenty language.

 

Lengha worn by 'The most beautiful women in the world' in the film 'Bride and Prejudice' - Aishwarya Rai .

Lengha worn by 'The most beautiful women in the world' in the film 'Bride and Prejudice' - Aishwarya Rai........Click on the image for ZOOM

Donated by Gurinder Chadha and Miramax Films a beautiful outfit worn by Aishwarya Rai in the film Bride & Prejudice. $10,000.


Autographed by the music legend, Carlos Santana, Santana Series Conga Drum by Latin Percussion - $25,000.

Autographed by the music legend, Carlos Santana, Santana Series Conga Drum by Latin Percussion........Click on the image for ZOOM

Donated by Anil Monga, CEO Victory International, and Senior AIF well wisher. Courtesy Carlos Santana Celebrating the career of Carlos Santana, Latin Percussion introduces exclusive Santana commemorative design, fabric wrapped, 28 '' tall fiberglass, Gold Tone Hardware and EZ Curve Rims.

 

 

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