Rob Dean Art Ltd is a London-based gallery with a focus on Indian and South Asian Art.
Directors Robin Dean and Sonali Vadera have both previously lived and worked in Mumbai and Singapore, Sonali in finance and Rob working as a specialist in 20th Century Indian Art at Christie's and then as Director of the Indian and Southeast Asian Department at Sotheby’s. Rob has worked on sales and exhibitions in London, Singapore and New York for over a decade. He remains a senior consultant for Modern and Contemporary Indian art at Sotheby’s.
Currently Exhibiting
ROB DEAN ART
in association with
Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
Dolls
Throughout history the relationship between young women and dolls of various kinds has been multilayered and ambiguous, full of both complementary and contradictory elements. The group exhibition represents the response of twelve Indian based contemporary artists to this phenomenon and presents a broad gamut of interpretations that can be both playful and disturbing.
Blackall Studios
73a Leonard Street
London EC2A 4QS
3rd – 9th June 2011
11 am – 5 pm or by appointment (excl. Sunday)
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION
Francis Newton Souza
Ever since the first exhibition that Rob Dean Art Ltd held in London in 2002 titled ‘Souza and Friends’ the company has had a close association with the works of Francis Newton Souza. As an artist Souza was tirelessly experimental in a career that spanned more than six decades and his drawings, collages and chemical alterations on paper provide an intriguing insight into Souza’s artistic process. The works included in the Delhi Art Summit focus on the period from the 1950’s to the early 1960’s when the artist lived and worked in London.
The range of styles over a period of a few years is striking and contextually places the artist firmly within the European Modernist movements but reveals the voice of a genius who was constantly experimenting and striving to push the boundaries of his artistic vocabulary beyond those of his British and European counterparts. His confident line drawings of nudes reveal a sense of humour and love of the female form that resurfaces in his works throughout his career, whilst his collages and drawings on magazine and newspaper reveal his constant urge to experiment and evolve as an artist.
INDIAN ART SUMMIT,
BOOTH S-08, Hall No. 18,
Pragati Maidan (ITPO),
New Delhi
VIP Preview 20th January 2011, 3.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Public View 21st -23rd January 2011, 11.00 am - 5.00 pm.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION
ROB DEAN ART
in association with
SAM FOGG
The Ajanta Watercolours
A previously undiscovered group of original watercolours by Indian artists from the 1896 publication 'The Paintings in the Buddhist Cave Temples of Ajanta, Khandesh, India' by John Griffiths is the focus of the exhibition presented as part of Asian Art in London 2010.
Sam Fogg Gallery
15d Clifford Street
London W1S 4JZ
4th - 23rd November, 2010
PREVIOUS EXHIBITION
ROB DEAN ART
presents
'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
recent works by
Princess Pea
An exciting emerging talent from Delhi, Princess Pea explores in a quietly tongue in cheek manner ideas of identity, self worth, the conflict between traditional and contemporary roles of women in Indian society and the ever prevalent issues of the cult of the Celebrity both in India and abroad.
Blackall Studios, 73a Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS
8th-15th October, 2010
11 am – 5 pm or by appointment