Long functioning as a bridge between India’s vibrant artistic production and the broader international art scene, Aicon Gallery has been active for about 20 years, operating globally from its New York and London locations. At India Art Fair, the gallery presented a group of established modern and contemporary masters from India. One wall was dedicated to women modernists, anchored by a striking work by B. Prabha (born 1933), paired with two pieces by Achuthan Ramachandran. Prabha’s painting sold for around $100,000. Also on view was work by Satish Gujral, one of the most significant figures in Indian modernism, whose six-decade career spanned art, architecture and public culture. His painterly language was deeply shaped by an early period in Mexico—encouraged by Octavio Paz, then ambassador to India—where Gujral became close to Frida Kahlo and worked alongside Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. That experience informed the expressive palette and monumental sensibility that define his work. The gallery swiftly placed one of his paintings in the $70,000-80,000 range, buoyed by strong institutional visibility tied to his concurrent exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, which opened the same week.
