Auction: Thu 26 May - Tue 31 May 2022
Exhibition: Fri 27 May 2022 - Tue 31 May 2022
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg
Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm
26 - 31 May 2022 | London | full auction details
This May, Sotheby’s is honoured to be offering works from the remarkable collection of Mrs. Ute Rettberg of Surya Galerie, Germany. The gallery opened in 1973, in Mrs. Rettberg’s home of Freinsheim, near Frankfurt, and was the first of its kind in Europe - a gallery selling up-and-coming contemporary Indian artists.
Surya Galerie began through a collaboration between Mrs. Rettberg and Kekoo Gandhy, the founder of the pioneering Chemould Gallery, Bombay. Mrs. Rettberg, one of the first women in the German diplomatic service, lived in Bombay during the mid-1960s, while working at the German Consulate General. Attracted to the vibrant colours of Indian contemporary art, and inspired to support talented young artists, she began to acquire works to decorate her and her husband’s new home in Juhu Beach.
Following the Rettbergs’ return to Germany, Kekoo Gandhy sent Ute an array of works to show in her newly-founded Surya Galerie. This arrangement lasted for two years, after which Ute worked directly with the artists of her choice. She formed close friendships with many of these artists, such as K. K. Hebbar, Devayani and Kanwal Krishna, Satish Panchal and Surya Prakash, some of whom would stay with her in Freinsheim for months at a time, showing their works in solo and group shows at the gallery.
Mrs. Rettberg ran Surya Galerie for almost a decade, during which time she held over fifty shows. The fresh, colourful and diverse works she offered aroused great interest in Germany and further afield, and played an important role in the expansion of the Indian art market abroad. Mrs. Rettberg herself acquired an astonishing personal collection of modern Indian paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, which she has lived with for almost fifty years.
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Devayani Krishna Untitled (Townscape)
more detailsDevayani Krishna Old Dehli
more detailsAmbadas Khobragade The Closed Membranes of Silence
more detailsPrasanna Seth Untitled
more detailsJatin Das Untitled
more detailsBalkrishna Patel Meditation II
more detailsHomi B. Patel Untitled
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more detailsS Kanniappan Untitled
more detailsHimmat Shah Untitled (Set of Three)
more detailsD L N Reddy Untitled (Set of Three Etchings)
more detailsD L N Reddy Untitled
more detailsSunil Das Untitled (Abstract)
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more detailsAmbadas Khobragade Untitled
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more detailsIla Pal Untitled (Trees)
more detailsIla Pal Untitled
more detailsLaxman Pai Untitled
more detailsLaxman Pai Untitled (Abstract Portrait)
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more detailsVelu Viswanadhan Untitled (Orange)
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more detailsAmrut Patel Untitled
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more detailsRajendra Dhawan Untitled
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more detailsShiv Singh Untitled
more detailsNelly Sethna Untitled
more detailsSita Devi Untitled
more detailsMahasundri Devi Untitled
more detailsA. Ramachandran Untitled (Bindu Mandala)
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more detailsMridula Vichitra Untitled
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more detailsAmar Nath Sehgal Untitled
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more detailsBishamber Khanna Painting II
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more detailsBimal Das Gupta Untitled
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more detailsK. Laxma Goud Untitled
more detailsSurya Prakash Untitled
more detailsKanwal Krishna Untitled (Search of Light)
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more detailsRekha Rao The Weaver
more detailsHaku Shah Untitled
more detailsVijay Shinde Untitled
more detailsP. S. Nandhan Sea Plant
more detailsOm Soorya Untitled
more detailsBadri Narayan A Composition on the Game of Chaupad
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