Directory Journal Asia is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations and also to the most exhilarating artistic finds. Asian art has been appreciated all over the world, as it offers intriguing insight into the traditions and vibrant history of Asia’s many cultures. Asian Art is known to depict light and darkness as two […]
Express India The auctions are here again With a brief lull during May, it’s auction time again for two of India’s premium auction houses: Saffronart and Osian’s. Both are looking at the Moderns and the Contemporaries and offering rare works by great Masters like F N Souza, S H Raza and M F Husain. While […]
Artdaily Nanda Consults the Astrologers, c. 1790, opaque watercolor on paper, 17 x 21 inches. Collection The Art Complex Museum. Image courtesy ExhibitsUSA. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- Miniature Worlds: Art from India features watercolors, drawings, and sculpture spanning 400 years of Indian history. The exhibition illuminates various forms of Indic media from the 15th to the […]
London: Artist Subodh Gupta, known as New Delhi’s Damien Hirst, has moved into the record making million dollar bracket alongside Francis Newton Souza and Tyeb Mehta with the sale of his untitled installation of steel pots for $1.2 million at Christie’s sale of Indian contemporary art here. Gupta, Souza and Mehta were the stars of […]
cnnmoney.com Anil Ambani hasn’t been seen in public much since his Mumbai-based Reliance Communications started negotiating to merge with MTN, the South African telecoms company last month. However, both he and Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, his group managing director and close adviser, have put in brief appearances at Christie’s art auction rooms in London during the past […]
Kishore Singh / New Delhi June 13, 2008, 0:21 IST It’s a somewhat ironic truism that every time the markets act shaky, the price of art begins to zip-zap-zoom. So when the Sensex in India began to crumble, punters could have pointed out with reasonable surety that the Christie’s auction of South Asian modern and […]
Malaysia SunFriday 13th June, 2008(IANS) Artist Subodh Gupta, known as New Delhi’s Damien Hirst, has moved into the record making million dollar bracket alongside Francis Newton Souza and Tyeb Mehta with the sale of his untitled installation of steel pots for $1.2 million at Christie’s sale of Indian contemporary art here. Gupta, Souza and Mehta […]
Kishore Singh In 2007, when a Mumbai-based art gallery released a set of 18 limited edition serigraphs of painter Jehangir Sabavala, the sceptics among collectors sniggered about what they perceived as manipulation of prices. In the time the exhibition-cum-sale moved from Mumbai to Delhi, the prices of the smaller of the serigraph prints (16’x24.4′) had […]
Reuters, Thursday June 12 2008 By Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters) – When Chinese artist Yue Minjun sold his painting "Gweong Gweong", inspired by the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, he received $5,000. That was in 1994. Fourteen years later, the painting of toothy men dropping like missiles from war planes over Tiananmen, […]
By Adam Majendie June 12 (Bloomberg) — Francis Newton Souza’s painting “Birth” sold for 1.27 million pounds ($2.5 million) at a Christie’s International sale yesterday in London, an auction record for Indian modern and contemporary art. The 1955 work beat the auction house’s high presale estimate of 800,000 pounds in a sale of South Asian […]
