Share:Saffronart to host a fundraiser on October 31 featuring works by more than 40 leading modern and contemporary artists Saffronart and the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) will hold a fundraiser auction on October 31 in support of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. The KBF is a non-profit charitable trust engaged in promoting art and culture and educational […]
Share:Source:- girishshahane.blogspot.com The art market is getting ugly. Saffronart’s spring sale, which concluded two days ago, provided proof, if any was needed. Substantial works by M F Husain, S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza, Ram Kumar, Ganesh Pyne, Akbar Padamsee and Prabhakar Barwe among the moderns, and Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, G R Iranna, Shibu Natesan (canvas […]
Share:Art houses can use these fictitious purchase bills to set an inflated benchmark price for works by artists, causing genuine investors to pay more Khushboo Narayan – THE MINT Mumbai: An investigation into the business practices of Osian’s and Saffronart Management Corp., two of India’s premier art houses, has revealed several irregularities in their account […]
Share:8 Jan 2009, Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN PATNA: Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta is, what they say, paying back to his home state Bihar which saw the worst-ever floods last monsoon. He collaborated with his celebrity friends in the art world, and collected Rs 4.17 crore through online auction of their paintings for rehabilitation of […]
Share:Source: TNN MUMBAI: The victims of the flood in Bihar in August have found good Samaritans in 31 artists from across the country. From Atul and Anju Dodiya and Jitish Kallat to T V Santhosh and Mithu Sen, artists have donated one work each to an auction organised by Saffron Art, artist couple Subodh Gupta […]
Share:CJ: Rupali Ghadge SAFFRONART CLOSED its exciting Autumn Online Auction of Contemporary Indian Art, registering a total sale value of approximately Rs 29 crores (US $7.2 million), about 72 per cent in excess of the low estimate. Hosted on Saffronart’s new technology platform which serves up an innovative and secure user interface, this sale featured […]
Share:PAKISTANI ARTISTS ARE MAKING A SPLASH IN THE INDIAN ART MART, SAYS AARTI DUA Rashid Rana occupies a unique position among Pakistan’s contemporary artists and has been a hit internationallyRashid Rana is a star, whether it’s in Lahore, Mumbai or Hong Kong. The Pakistani artist wowed the crowds who flocked to his Mumbai show in […]
Share: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 […]
Share: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 […]
