Share:After years of selling Indian art to affluent NRIs, international auction houses are now looking to expand the market to Indians at home. After years of selling Indian art to affluent NRIs, international auction houses are now looking to expand the market to Indians at home. Neelam Raaj spoke to Edward Gibbs, chairman and head […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]