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Gallery based in London dealing with South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art.

Grosvenor Gallery is based in London and specializes primarily in South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art.

31/07/2026

Grosvenor Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at Frieze Masters 2026 in the Spotlight section, curated by Dr Devika Singh and Dr Sofia Gotti, with a focused presentation of work by the pioneering South Asian painter Syed Sadequain (1930–1987).

The presentation centres on a group of paintings and works on paper from the 1960s, a defining decade in Sadequain’s practice. During these years, he forged the powerful visual language that established his international reputation, synthesising expressive figuration with an extraordinary command of line and calligraphic form.

Among the most significant South Asian artists of the twentieth century, Sadequain occupies a singular place in the history of modern art. This presentation offers an opportunity to reconsider the significance of his work within a global art historical context and highlights the innovation of his practice during one of his most fertile artistic periods.

Frieze Masters 2026
Spotlight
14–18 October 2026
The Regent’s Park, London

30/07/2026

“Every blade of grass, every strand of hair in its place, and justified. Jamil Naqsh placed every grain of pigment as if it were precious metal or a precious stone.”

The intricate details of Naqsh’s paintings.

Jamil Naqsh, Significant early paintings, on view at Grosvenor Gallery.

24/07/2026

Best known for his figurative oil paintings of women with pigeons, Jamil Naqsh explored naturalistic painting before gradually blending it with abstraction, creating stylised female nudes set against empty, heavily textured backgrounds.

Join us for an evening of Life Drawing at Grosvenor Gallery, surrounded and inspired by the figurative works of Jamil Naqsh.
Refresh an old skill or explore a new one; all abilities are welcome!
Materials will be provided.

Tickets for sale on Eventbrite through the link in our bio (limited availability)

12th August
6-8 pm

23/07/2026

A critic once commented that Naqsh’s works; “are reminiscent of the care that a painter of miniatures on all details must use. Every blade of grass, every strand of hair in its place, and justified. Jamil Naqsh placed every grain of pigment as if it were precious metal or a precious stone.”

Naqsh is best known for his figurative oil paintings of women with pigeons. During the 1960s and ‘70s, Naqsh explored naturalistic painting before gradually combining naturalism with abstraction, creating stylised female nudes set against empty, heavily textured backgrounds.

Our exhibition, ‘Jamil Naqsh, significant early paintings,’ includes works from several important private British collections and focuses on a pivotal period in Naqsh’s career, when his canvases were constructed from countless tiny daubs of paint, recalling the meticulousness of miniature painting and producing a chromatic effect akin to a mosaic or fractured, dazzling light.

The exhibition continues till the 31st of July.

20/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us on a hot summers evening to support the opening of our current show of significant early paintings by Pakistani modernist and pioneering artist Jamil Naqsh.

The show will continue till the end of the month.

Jamil Naqsh,
Significant early paintings
10th July -31st July 2026

Photography credits: Jonathan Milton

17/07/2026

“Reddy’s protesting figures emphasised his belief in the power of a unified collective.”

This week we have two of Krishna Reddy’s Demonstrator works- a resin sculpture and a coloured etching. Powerful images created in response to the 1968 protests and civil unrest that began in Paris and spread throughout France.

This week, there are lots of links and rabbit holes leading to relevant shows. The main ones being the wonderful exhibitions of his work staged by the Print Centre New York (2025) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017).

Reddy was a master of his craft, and in the article there is a link to a fantastic and strangely relaxing video explaining his viscosity printing technique, created by Print Centre New York.

This will be the last Friday Find for a little while as everyone disappears off for the summer break. Yes, we missed last week, but hopefully you saw details of our exhibition of early work by Jamil Naqsh. That show runs throughout July and early August and we hope to see you if you’re in town.

10/07/2026

RWS Summer Salon
RWS Gallery
Reopening Celebration: Saturday 11 July, 1 - 3pm

The next iteration of the Royal Watercolour Society’s evolving permanent display at the RWS’s Trafalgar Square gallery opens on 11 July.

New and returning visitors can expect a vibrant and lively selling exhibition in a busy, salon-style hang, showcasing some of the very best in contemporary water-based painting today.

This display also marks a return to the Society’s origins. Inspired by John Frederick Lewis’s sketch The Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours before the Exhibition, 1830 pictured above, the exhibition recalls the richly layered salon hangs that filled 3 - 5 Whitcomb Street almost two centuries ago.

Echoing that historic scene, this new presentation of Members’ work embraces the spirit of those early exhibitions, resulting in a dynamic display full of unexpected discoveries.

The exhibition will feature approximately 200 original water-based media works on paper in a wide range of sizes, styles and subjects.

Work pictured by Shanti Panchal

Royal Watercolour Society

03/07/2026

This week we have a charming watercolour from the 1920s by painter William Spencer Bagdatopoulos.

Bagdatopoulos was born on the island of Zante and spent his early years in the Netherlands. He moved to London in 1908 where he worked as an artist, taking commissions for portraits, illustrations, murals and posters for shipping companies and the railways.

This painting is a view of fishermen on the Malabar coast, delicately and expressively painted in the 1920 whilst the artist was touring India at the behest of the Time of India, who commissioned him to paint the people and landscape of India.

FACT SHEET:

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965)
Untitled (Fishermen on the Malabar Coast), Circa 1925
Watercolour on paper
Signed lower right
50 x 74 cm
20 x 30 inches

Provenance
Private Collection;
Phillips, London, unknown auction, circa 2000
Private British Collection

30/06/2026

“Every blade of grass, every strand of hair in its place, and justified. Jamil Naqsh placed every grain of pigment as if it were precious metal or a precious stone.”

Grosvenor Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of significant early paintings by Jamil Naqsh (1939–2019), one of Pakistan’s and South Asia’s foremost modern painters.

Focusing on a pivotal period in the artist’s career, the exhibition brings together important works from private British collections, showcasing Naqsh’s extraordinary synthesis of naturalism and abstraction, and the richly textured, luminous surfaces for which he is celebrated.

Reception
Thursday, 9 July, 6–8 pm

Exhibition
10–31 July 2026

Grosvenor Gallery
35 Bury Street
London SW1Y 6AU

26/06/2026

For this week’s Friday Find we are celebrating the life of artist and collector Wahab Jaffar, who sadly passed away this week. We are looking into his archives and at his close relationship with Ahmed Parvez.

Wahab was a wonderful individual. A collector, painter and great friend and patron to many artists.

Wahab kept the most wonderful archives, which are available to view on the Asia Art Archive website. If you have a few days spare, it’s worth getting lost in these fantastic documents. They are an account of the arts ecosystem in Karachi from the 1970s to mid-2000s, and document his relationships with artists, galleries and collectors, with artist’s scrap books, letters and photographs.

Wahab had a hand in supporting so many artists over the years and was particularly close to Ahmed Parvez. This week we have looked into the archives and pulled out some material on them both.

There are some wonderful stories in his archives, which reward careful study.

Address

35 Bury Street
London
SW1Y6AY

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 6pm
Friday	9:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+442074847979

Website

http://grosvenorgallery.com/

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