The Guggenheim is ready&shying to present its first ever exhibition of India's cel&shyebrated modern painter, V.S. Gaitonde (1924-2001). The retrospective will be the most comprehensive overview of Gaitonde&rsquos work to date and will include 45 major paintings and works on paper drawn from 30 leading public institutions and private collec&shytions across Asia, Europe and the United States many of these have never been seen by the public until now. Art lovers will, therefore, have the opportunity to enjoy Gaitonde&rsquos skills - his extraordinary use of colour, form, texture, symbolism and calligraphy. Gaitonde&rsquos singular stature as an independent artist and a man of uncompromising artistic integrity shines through as the exhibition draws from his early, figurative, mixed-medium works and watercolours, through his signature oil works on canvas in the 1960s and &lsquo70s, to his late works of undimmed genius. The exhibition is designed to showcase Gaitonde as a seminal colour&shyist whose career remains unequalled in the history of South Asian modern art.

&nbspV.S. Gaitonde Painting as Process, Painting as Life 23 October&ndash11 February. A range of public programmes, including screenings of the film V.S. Gaitonde by Sunil Kaldate, and exhibition tours, may be viewed at guggenheim.org/publicprograms. The exhibition will travel to the Peggy Gug&shygenheim Collection in Venice later in 2015.