Saffronart’s 25th anniversary evening sale sets a world record for South Asian art auction30 Sep, 2025, 02.40 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
Amrita Sher-Gil's 1938 painting fetches Rs 37.8 cr, becomes 2nd-most expensive work of Indian artThe artwork set a world record for the highest value achieved by the artist in auction.
14 Jul, 2021, 04.26 PM IST
Rolls Royce Ghost, MF Hussain painting & Birkin handbags owned by Nirav Modi's fetch Rs 51 cr at auctionThe two-day online auction garnered Rs 2.04 crore against the expected proceeds of Rs 52 lakh.
06 Mar, 2020, 03.44 PM 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
Oil causes art attack, Gaitonde sets record at Rs 27 crThe painting became 'one of the top three most expensive works by the artist to be sold in India'.
19 Sep, 2019, 02.37 PM IST
Pricing is part science, part art, says Saffronart’s Minal VaziraniHaving not grown up in India, Vazirani struggled to acquire new artwork when she first moved to the country.
08 Aug, 2019, 12.55 PM IST
Tyeb Mehta's 'Kali' sets new record, fetches whopping Rs 26.4 crore at auctionThe artwork surpasses his record for 1994 Untitled (Woman on rickshaw) painting sold for Rs 22.99 cr in 2017.
16 Jun, 2018, 06.15 PM IST
The art of appreciation: Akbar Padamsee's painting bought for Rs 1,000, sold at Rs 19 cr!This was the highest price paid for a work by Padamsee, with the previous record of $1.4 million set in 2011.
13 Sep, 2016, 02.27 PM IST
FN Souza's daughter Francesca remembers "bankrupt dad" before fame & fortuneWith Souza's painting being sold for $4 million recently, it is hard to imagine a time when his work cost less than a telephone call.
02 Dec, 2015, 11.38 AM IST
Ambani's Souza painting worth $2.5 mn to beat recent sale record?All eyes are on Christie's upcoming auction as Souza's painting, 'Birth', is back on the market which Tina Ambani's HAF bought.
16 Sep, 2015, 09.34 AM IST
Fresh arrivals brighten up art sale canvasA Mumbai-based art collector put a painting by Jehangir Sabavala up for auction in Delhi last week and it fetched Rs 3 crore.
08 Sep, 2014, 02.25 AM IST
- Mumbai-based Saffronart's annual Autumn Art Auction gets a total of Rs 21 crore
Led by Tyeb Mehta's 1988 canvas 'Falling figure with Bird' and a rare painting by Amrita Sher-Gil from the early 1930s, Mumbai-based Saffro...
25 Sep, 2012, 02.11 PM IST
- Manjit Bawa sells for record Rs. 1.7cr, Indian art mart looking up
An untitled canvas by Manjit Bawa sold for Rs 1.7 crore at a recent online auction.
13 Dec, 2009, 01.41 PM IST
- Indian artmart in colourful mood
After more than an year-long economic gloom, the auction scene for Indian art is showing signs of a recovery. The improvement is evident in...
14 Oct, 2009, 12.17 AM IST
- Indian art sale draws bidders from 32 nations
Well-known domestic auctioneer Saffronart clocked sales of Rs 29 crore in its autumn auction of contemporary Indian art. Eighteen world auc...
09 Sep, 2008, 12.25 AM IST
- Saffronart auction: Indian art sets 18 world records
Saffronart closed its exciting Autumn Online Auction of Contemporary Indian art registering a total sale value of approximately Rs 29 crore...
05 Sep, 2008, 06.32 PM IST