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Indian art work fetches record price at Christie’s

London, Jun 12 (PTI) A work of art by Indian artist Francis Newton Souza has fetched a world auction record price of 1,273,250 pounds at the Christie’s here. "Amongst the masterpieces offered, Francis Newton Souza’s ‘Birth’ (1955) realised 1,273,250 pounds, setting a new world auction record for the artist and for any Indian Modern and […]

Valuing art: The role of provenance and auction

D. Murali and Kumar Shankar Roy Chennai: The French verb provenir means to come from/stem from, referring to the source. Art is perhaps one of the very few asset classes, where valuations depend so much on its source. This explains why ‘provenance’ (pronounced as ‘prov-uh-nuhns’) attains overriding logic. Comparative techniques, expert opinions, written and verbal […]

London sees a new spring of Indian art

KOLKATA: Indian art has created a wave at the Sotheby’s auction in London. The auction has scaled a total sale value of £4.290 million. This is well above the highest presale estimate of £3.4 million. F N Souza’s oil on canvas, The Red Road, has swung the tallest price of £5,80,000 against an estimate of […]

Contemporary Indian art – an explosive market

In the mid 1990s, strong economic growth in India flushed out a new generation of collectors looking to invest in the art of fellow Indians. Today, demand is global and rising, fuelled by a very speculative environment with tempting opportunities for quick in and out trading. The new stars of Indian art are sought after […]

The oil of the canvas

Art Dubai: A report of the happenings in the land of opportunity – Georgina MaddoxBose Krishnamachari, has been smiling a lot recently. Perhaps it has to do with the super success of the Dubai show that he curated at Malini Gulrajani’s gallery, 1X1, titled Af-fair, that had 20 artists displaying the best of their works […]

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