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Indian Modernist masterpieces to go under the hammer at Christie’s auction in New York

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Share:Spanning more than 70 years of modern and contemporary art in South Asia, the sale features seminal works, led by artist V.S. Gaitonde, among many others. Akbar Padamsee, Untitled (Mirror Image), Lot 424. Estimate: $600,000-800,000 Image Courtesy: Christie’s. At Christie’s Asian Art Week, works by artists, including Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, Adi Davierwalla, Akbar […]

Indian art shines in foreign markets

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Share: Works by veteran artist V.S. Gaitonde that were sold during the recently-concluded auction of modern and contemporary South Asian art in London. Works by Indian masters sell for £13,70,000 at a recent auction. Modern and contemporary Indian art has had much success at auctions held overseas, with international buyers taking note of the talent […]

Indian Modernist, Artist of Mystery

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Share: V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective  Sandhini Poddar, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has organized a retrospective on the Indian modernist painter V. S. Gaitonde, that opens Friday. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times  When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V. S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. […]

Indian art needs a discerning market

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Share:What is the new buzz about the art auctions? asked a non-arty friend of mine last evening when he found me thumbing through a couple of auctions catalogues. What about them, I wondered? Considering the whole premise of an auction is that there should be more than one buyer for any work, who in turn […]

How is art not luxury?

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Share:The last few days of the current fiscal saw Indian art worth Rs 100 crore being auctioned at three separate venues over a few hours each, yet it failed to form part of what the cognoscenti consider the $6 billion luxury industry (minus real-estate). It’s not art alone that’s outside the purview of what is […]

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