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Rs 167 crore for Raja Ravi Varma's masterpiece: How rarity, narrative, and timing turned it into a trophy assetAcquired by Cyrus Poonawalla, one of India’s most prominent industrialists, this transaction reflects a shift in which price sensitivity de...
From myth to masterpiece: Raja Ravi Varma’s legacy shines in landmark auction milestoneOne hundred and twenty years after his passing, Raja Ravi Varma continues to cast his spell on India’s art world with ‘Yashoda and Krishna’...
Astaguru’s Collectors Choice Auction generates Rs 28 cr in sales; Raza, Husain works among top modernist buysThe auction generated a total sales value of INR 28,99,87,021 (USD 4,027,510).
Art sales set $2.7 bn record; Jean-Michel Basquiat remains highest-selling artist at $93.1 mnBeeple's digital art comes in second, thanks to his landmark NFT sale.
Akbar Padamsee's 1962 ‘Landscape’ leads the roster at AstaGuru's online auction, sells at Rs 4.3 crAchieving the second-highest price was S H Raza’s artwork titled 'Jala – Bindu', selling at Rs 4,16,09,969.
Online auction of 200 works of Pablo Picasso raises almost £5 millionThe highest selling item was a 1950 vase - 'Grand Vase aux Femmes Nues' - which sold for 435,000 pounds.
Tyeb Mehta's paintings sell for millions: Here's how Sotheby's sets auction estimatesIshrat Kanga of Sotheby’s London breaks it down for the layman.
Billionaires chasing Warhols Fuel 10% rise in art sales to $16 billionCollectors bought 1,295 works by the deceased artist totaling $653.2 million, ahead of sales for Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon, according...
- Christie's London evening auction realised $206.15 million
The top price of the evening was paid for Francis Bacon's Portrait of George Dyer Talking, which sold for £42,194,500/ $70,042,870/ €51,308...
Zhang Daqian's work offered at Sotheby's in Hong Kong fetches $42 millionThe single-owner collection of Zhang Daqian's work which was offered at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, brought a triumphant total of HK$330 millio...
Zhang Daqian, Picasso continue to maintain a mesmeric hold over the art worldIn 2011, the Chinese artist Zhang Daqian usurped Picasso’s position as the world’s top selling artist at auction.
Permit business but ensure artistic licenceWhen talking about the Indian art market and pricing, one of the first words that springs to mind is ‘mechanics’. The dictionary defines it...
- 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...
- Early artists, heritage art fetch a premium
Recent art auctions have increasingly driven home the growing interest in early artists and 'heritage' paintings. Sotheby's Art House | Wor...
- After masterpiece paintings, drawings scale the price wall
Paintings by master artists have scaled as astronomical heights in the past. But their drawings are catching up too.
- Regional artists not getting enough room at auctions
Young Indian contemporary artists from regional centres are still finding poor representation in auctions, especially those staged overseas.
- Booming art biz upsets serious artists
The art industry perhaps never had it so good. Every thing from the "good, bad and the ugly is selling" and selling big time. New price rec...