Spotlight on Gaitonde at Saffronart's Summer Online Auction

A 1958 untitled work by modernist painter V S Gaitonde will go under the hammer at Saffronart's annual Summer Online Auction on June 1213 that will offer 120 works by leading modern and contemporary artists.

Gaitonde's painting, estimated at Rs 4 6 crore, features a vibrant red canvas with fragmented planes, and was created when the artist first began veering into a "non-objective" mode of painting.

Another untitled oil on canvas by Gaitonde, painted over a decade later in 1970 is also part of the sale. Estimated at Rs 12.42 16.56 crore, it is painted in an earthy colour palette with the artist's trademark calligraphic forms floating on the canvas, providing an ethereal quality to the work.

The sale also features two more works by Gaitonde from pivotal periods in his artistic career.

F N Souza's Untitled (Hampstead) from 1964 is a rare work that has never been seen before in public, and was likely gifted by the artist to Reeves, a London-based artists' paint company in exchange for