Share: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 […]
Share: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 […]
Share: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 […]
Share: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 […]
Share: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 […]
Share:Alexandra Peers February 2008 Issue With the international art market in flux, dealers and auction houses are heading for Dubai in search of new buyers and artists. Farhad Moshiri installing a show of gold-leafed toy guns. Photograph courtesy of: Daneyal Mahmood Gallery It is a truth of the art market that the richest nations always […]
Share:China and India are our main focusesfor growth in the next few years Tara Kilachand Asia focus: Christie’s Lisa King intends to focus on India and China for growth in the next few years. (Photo: Zack Canepari/ Mint) Mumbai: As international managing director of Christie’s, Lisa King has overseen some of the auction house’s most […]
Share:February 27th, 2008 – 5:11 pm Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Veteran artist F.N. Souza’s 1955 oil on board titled “Head of a Man” will be the costliest work to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s March 19 auction of Contemporary Indian Art. It is expected to rake in $280,000-380,000. The preview of the works going […]
Share:Ashoke Nag KOLKATA: M F Husain has entered the million-dollar club for the first time. In the maiden sale by Kolkata’s first art auction house Emami Chisel Art (ECA), the octogenarian master has struck a Rs 4 crore-plus figure. Husain’s canvas Safdar Hashmi has been picked up by a Mumbai-based buyer for Rs 4.4 crore. […]
