Share:Lucian Harris 7.1.09 Issue 198 When Mumbai recently came under terrorist attack, India’s art market had only just begun to contemplate the economic crisis. The signs had already started to appear—at a Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction in October, a painting by Indian golden boy Subodh Gupta failed to sell, when only six months earlier another […]
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:Sotheby’s two sets of Asia Week sales—in New York in mid-September and Hong Kong in early October—were overshadowed by the worldwide financial crisis. What the longer term trends in the market for Asian artworks will be cannot be known at this point because the sale results simply cannot be separated from the fact that the […]
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:Source: luxury-insider.com On 30 November and 1 December 2008, the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre will play host to Christie’s Autumn sales of Asian Contemporary Art. The sale includes more than 420 works valued in excess of US$30 million from acknowledged contemporary masters from China, Japan, South Korea and India. More than 30 works […]
Share:I would really like to see the response to the auction market in the coming few weeks. Frieze has bought all the art frenzy on their feet once again with a much improved fair.” – Aashu Maheshwari Works by big names were still selling: Subodh Gupta’s Still Steal Steel #9, 2008, at Hauser & Wirth […]
Share:Georgina Maddox An unsold Subodh reflects the effects of a crashing Sensex The market meltdown has not just affected the Sensex at the stock market. The buying of art has become more selective and speculative. Case in point: Subodh Gupta, the hot-new artist on the block whose paintings were being sold at Rs 7 crore, […]
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:artdaily NEW YORK.- After the spectacular success of Christie’s South Kensington sale on June 2008 which set numerous world auction records, this season Christie’s New York is pleased to announce the sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on 16 September. The sale will offer major works from modern masters like Tyeb Mehta, Maqbool […]
Share:Neelam Raaj NEW DELHI: Indian artists have gone global and now, international auction houses are hoping desi buyers will too. In a bid to tempt Indian collectors, who have shown an inclination only for homebred artists till now, into buying western art, Sotheby’s is bringing highlights from its upcoming sale of Damien Hirst’s works to […]
