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Indian Francis Newton Souza's 'Man and Woman', 1954, realised 1,360,000 dollars - more than quadrupling its pre-sale estimate.....Contemporary artists put their mark on the sale as well. Shibu Natesan's stand Alone, 2003, a composition based on the artist's time in Helsinki was bought for $ 1,98,000 ..... Subodh Gupta sailed high winds with his painting 'Round the Corner', 2004, fetching $ 90,000 and with his conceptual sculpture Gober/Ganesha realizing $ 84,000.....
Category: auction Posted on: Sep 25, 2006 by Kaushik Acharya
Picasso portrait fetches $95.2m
A Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar has been sold for $95.2m (£51.8m), the second highest amount ever paid for a painting at Sotheby's New York auction. Several other Picassos were also sold, including Harlequin with Baton, fetching $10m (£5.5m).
Category: auction Posted on: May 04, 2006 by Kaushik Acharya
Indian art scales new peak at Sotheby’s
At Sotehby's sale, the top lot was Raza's painting 'Tapovan' (1972), which sold to an anonymous bidder for USD 1.47 million while his compatriot Mehta's 'Falling Figure with Birds' (1988) fetched a close USD 1.24 million.
Sobodh Gupta's "Before the Plunge" went for $51,000 while Jitish Kallat's work fetched $42000. Chhittravanu Majumdar's work went for $72,000, Atul Dodiya's "Sabari as Mermaid" fetched $22,800, while his wife Anju Dodiya's "The Churning" got $108,000.
Category: auction Posted on: Apr 01, 2006 by Kaushik Acharya
Amrita Sher-gil's Village Scene sold for 6.9 crore
In a bidding session that lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours in the packed Royal Ballroom, Amrita Sher-Gil became the latest artist to join the crorepati club. A Delhi-based collector spent Rs 6.9 crore to acquire it. The evening belonged to Sher-Gil’s 1938 work, Village Scene, which bears the trademark style of the artist, who once said that village women moved ‘‘silently, looking almost like silhouettes and over which, an indefinable melancholy reigns’’.
Category: auction Posted on: Mar 04, 2006 by Kaushik Acharya
Picasso's work to go on sale in Delhi
Valued at around $2 million, the works have been brought to India for the first time by a Delhi art gallery(Vadehra) in collaboration with a London gallery.Although they are secondary works, that include lithographs, linocuts and a couple of original drawings, the gallery owners say they are testing prices that an art-hungry Indian market can bear.
Category: general Posted on: Feb 08, 2006 by Kaushik Acharya
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