Sonam Kapoor is an actor, a fashion tastemaker, and, increasingly, an art collector. The aesthetic eye that drew her to film and fashion has also informed her growing art collection, one she said “began instinctively,” shaped by early exposure to South Asian modernists. "My first purchase was a work by Manjit Bawa. He’s a modern master, and I’m obsessed with his use of color. His subject matter was so deliberate, and it really spoke to me. I bought it in 2006. My most recent purchase is a piece by Jangarh Singh Shyam. He was a non-metropolitan artist credited with creating a new school of Indian art called Jangarh Kalam in the 1980s and I absolutely love his work—it’s sublime, beautiful, and so detailed."
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