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Salon: The India Way

August 15-September 15, 2025

Nature Morte, 3rd Floor, A Block, Dhanraj Mahal, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Nature Morte presents its new Salon Series dedicated to International and Indian Modern Art, spearheaded by young gallerist Devashi Jain. This initiative marks a significant expansion of the gallery’s vision, creating a trusted space for discerning collectors to engage with artworks that have stood the test of time, both from India and across the globe.

Salon: The India Way curated by Poonji Nath, is an attempt to bring together modernist works from Europe and India in the style of the historic Paris Salon — densely hung, unapologetically abundant, and intellectually charged.
Borrowing from the Paris Salon not only in form but in spirit, this exhibition seeks to reclaim the Salon’s original intent: to be a site of public encounter, artistic contestation, and aesthetic possibility. While the 18th- and 19th-century Salons shaped art history in the West, setting careers in motion, dictating taste, and later being challenged by those it excluded, Salon: The India Way reflects on what it means to revisit this structure today, from another geography and another gaze.

Featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, Eugene Delacroix, Manjit Bawa, Ram Kumar, Zarina Hashmi, FN Souza, Tyeb Mehta, and Sadanand Bakre, among others, the show invites viewers to see modernism as a shared, simultaneous movement rather than a one-way inheritance from West to East.

Find out more about the show here.