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. […]
Share:Source:- Khaleej Times Online BANGALORE – India’s economic boom has fuelled demand for condos, cars and company stocks but some of the new wealth created in Asia’s third-biggest economy is finding its way into art. Entrepreneurs and young professionals, the biggest beneficiaries of India’s financial prosperity, are buying works of art both to signal they […]
