All eyes on Padamsee at Roland's March 28th 'Important Art and Jewelry Auction'

A sixty-four-year-old canvas arrived at Roland Auctions' Glen Cove sale carrying one of the house's most substantial estimates in recent memory. The work: an untitled abstract cityscape by Indian Modernist Akbar Padamsee, signed and dated 1962 and set in a gold leaf frame, with an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000.

Roland Auctions presented the Padamsee lot as the centerpiece of its "Important Art and Jewelry" auction on March 28, 2026 at 10 a.m. in Glen Cove, New York, timed in celebration of Asia Week New York. The house described the painting as a rare, newly discovered prime-period "metascape" by Padamsee (1928-2020), a highly acclaimed figure in Indian Modernist painting. The term "metascape" was Padamsee's own coinage for his invented urban landscapes, and the 1962 date places this canvas squarely in the prime period when those compositions were at their most formally concentrated.

The Padamsee lot anchored a sale with considerable range beyond the canvas wall. The auction brought together a curated collection of high-end fine jewelry, important bronze sculptures, and what Roland described as a stand-out, large collection of unusual Asian Decorative Arts of all kinds. The pairing with Asia Week New York gave the program a directional coherence that specialists in South and East Asian material would have noticed immediately.

Estate consignments added another layer. Items from the estates of Oleg Cassini, Inc. and Cassini Parfums, Ltd., both business entities of the legendary, late fashion designer Oleg Cassini, appeared among the auction's additional highlights. Estate-sourced jewelry carries a specific advantage at auction: traceable ownership, a recognizable name in the provenance chain, and the kind of design lineage that distinguishes a signed piece from an unsigned period equivalent. The Roland catalog included high-quality estate jewelry and designer pieces from those collections, with lot descriptions noting hallmarks and maker's signatures, details that matter to vintage jewelry buyers tracking the auction visibility of particular houses or ateliers.

The breadth of material in a single Glen Cove session, anchored by a six-figure Indian Modernist painting and bracketed by fashion-world estate jewelry and a deep run of Asian decorative arts, reflects Roland Auctions' approach to its "Important" sales: dense, cross-category, and calibrated for the collector who moves fluently between disciplines.