Inside R. Madhavan's Rs 17.5 crore Mumbai home: From gold accents to a serene Buddha corner to terrace garden where he grows fruits and vegetables using hydroponicsR. Madhavan's Mumbai home reflects his calm personality through thoughtful design choices. Gold accents and an all-white bathroom create a ...
02 Aug, 2026, 10.36 PM IST
Raja Ravi Varma's Yashoda & Krishna sells for over Rs 167 crore. Buyer is global vaccine tycoonCyrus Poonawalla bought Raja Ravi Varma's painting Yashoda and Krishna for Rs 167.2 crore. This sale broke the record for modern Indian art...
02 Apr, 2026, 10.37 AM IST
Planning to invest in first piece of art? Don’t forget to factor hidden costs, authentication battles, limited liquidityIndia’s art auctions hit a record high in turnover, but first-time buyers face hidden costs, authentication battles, and limited liquidity....
10 Nov, 2025, 11.07 AM IST
View: You have to put a price to make something pricelessCultures that are output-oriented tend to inject greater (quantifiable) value to creatively produced products than input-oriented ones. For...
23 Sep, 2023, 11.00 PM IST
Amrita Sher-gil's 'The Story teller' is now the most expensive Indian painting! Oil on canvas masterpiece fetches Rs 61.8 cr at Delhi auction'The Story Teller', touted to be among the 12 works selected by Sher-Gil herself as her most important works, is widely considered an examp...
19 Sep, 2023, 08.33 AM IST
2021 Year in Review | The year of the NFTIn 2021, NFTs broke out of their niche to become one of the hottest tech trends (and buzzwords) of the year. On November 24, Collins Dictio...
28 Dec, 2021, 04.41 PM IST
Rs 500 crore for a jpeg isn't as crazy as you thinkThe piece, titled 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days', is a mosaic made up of 5,000 individual images created every day from 2007 to 2021 and...
15 Mar, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
No Covid woes for the art world: Over 54 works, priced around Rs 1 cr each, sold since AprilThe CEO of Artery India feels that the art world has managed to recover from the lockdown.
17 Sep, 2020, 11.15 AM IST
VS Gaitonde's 1974 painting fetches Rs 32 cr at Mumbai auction, becomes most-expensive Indian artworkThe artwork was bought by an unnamed international buyer.
04 Sep, 2020, 09.17 AM IST
Raza's 'La Terre', Souza's 1958 Untitled oil & other artworks that fared well at 2019 auctionsRaza's 'La Terre', an abstract landscape fetched Rs 21.6 crore at a Christie's sale.
31 Dec, 2019, 05.43 PM IST
Anish Kapoor, whose sculpture fetched Rs 9.31 cr at Christie's, declared most-successful Indian artist aliveKapoor sold 102 lots that realised a total turnover of Rs 168.25 crores.
17 May, 2019, 04.05 PM IST
Bright canvas: Indians now spend big money on artThe most expensive Indian work sold through auction is an untitled work by Gaitonde, sold by Christie's in December 2015 for $4.4 mn.
08 Feb, 2017, 12.23 PM IST
F N Souza's painting for 16.8 crore tops Saffronart auctionModern Indian painter F N Souza's oil-on-masonite artwork titled "Man and Woman Laughing" sold for approximately Rs 16.84 crore.
11 Sep, 2015, 02.37 PM IST
Erstwhile royals targeting new buyers for promoting luxury products like pashmina shawls, hand-painted sarisWhile most of the retailing so far has been conducted through museum shops running within old forts and palaces, attempts are being made to...
05 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Artworks by SH Raza, MF Hussain put up for rent as market slowsArtworks by SH Raza, MF Husain and Ram Kumar could be adorning the walls of your office or home at a fraction of their cost.
18 Jul, 2013, 03.14 PM IST
Art from NGMA, National museum goes online in Google's Art ProjectThe two art institutions have joined Google's Art Project that features over 30,000 artworks in gigapixel super high resolution with street...
15 Apr, 2012, 09.41 AM IST
- Indian artwork to be showcased in Dubai
Indian jewellery and related works of art will feature at the debut of 'Art and Antiques Dubai' early next year.
21 Dec, 2007, 01.30 PM IST