Alison Roberts Lunchtime in Soho, and the Photographers’ Gallery is packed. Earnest students with bulky camera bags stand in front of John Davies’s paradoxically beautiful English landscapes – monolithic tower blocks, industrial wastelands, urban nightmares – and appraise each image solemnly. The bookshop and the café are full of wannabe collectors and amateur snappers. Yet […]
Ashoke Nag KOLKATA: Indian art is gaining increased acceptability in Europe.Renowned Paris-based Indian painter Sakti Burman sees a buoyant future for Indian art in these regions. Of course, artists who have been living in Paris for long are obviously enjoying greater visibility and a bigger slice of the European market for Indian art. Pricewise, on […]
March 04, 2008 Krishnakumar P Global auction house Sotheby’s had put on display contemporary Indian and Asian art worth $10 million in Mumbai on February 28. The art and jewellery on display will be sold later this month and in May, in New York and London respectively. Sotheby’s senior management and international specialists would host […]
Kishore Singh / New Delhi March 04, 2008 ART: While one new auction house may have claimed a record, two others – also new – are finding the going very tough. It’s almost a week since Triveda’s auction of Indian art (“early to contemporary”) but it is still to update […]
Georgina Maddox It isn’t surprising that chatter at art openings is hardly ever about art. Or that seasoned buyers like to keep their market tips close to their chests to remain ahead of the pack. In the absence of art education at the university level, art practitioners, critics and select galleries feel the importance to […]
Feb. 29, 2008 £95 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S LONDONBig spenders ruled at the evening sale of contemporary art at Sotheby’s London on Feb. 27, 2008, with 56 of 70 lots selling, or 80 percent, for a total of £95,030,000 ($189,423,299). Four lots sold for over £5 million, seven lots for over $5 million, 18 lots for […]
London, February 29 (ANI): An auction of artwork has set a record for contemporary art auctions in Europe with the total sales exceeding 95million pounds, says Sotheby’s. The London auction house has revealed that the artwork sold at the auction included masterpieces by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol. While Bacon’s 1969 Study of Nude With […]
John Martin, director of the Art Dubai fair, which opens later this month (March 19-22), can’t contain himself. His Emirati event, which launched last year, is bigger – more than 400 galleries applied for the 70 selling slots this year, up from 41 dealers in 2007 – and Martin says he knows why. “Dubai is […]
BONHAMS, THE international fine art auction house established in the UK since 1793, will hold its first Middle East auction sale in Dubai this March. The auction will feature works of some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani art. “We have a well-established reputation in sales of Indian […]
Indian art is all over the newspapers these days – from the financial pages to ‘Page 3’. And artists are rubbing shoulders with cricketers in the celebrity space. Recently I visited a couple of art shows where a few young artists from Gulbarga were exhibiting their paintings, but unfortunately they neither received any press coverage […]
