London: Rare paintings by Rabindranath Tagore, MF Husain and Jahangir Sabavala, so far based in private collections, are due to be auctioned at the
annual summer sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian art by auctioneers Bonhams in London on Thursday.
The sale includes works by well-known Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan artists, including SH Raza, Jamini Roy, Avinash Chandra, FN Souza , B Prabha, George Keyt, Sadequain, Jamil Naqsh and AR Chughtai.
The paintings have been sourced from private collections in Europe and the US, Bonhams said. ...
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08:59 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: Syed Haider Raza, the grand old man of modern art, turned 90 on Wednesday. Raza set an auction record for modern Indian art when one of his paintings 'Saurashtra', sold for almost USD 3.5 million in London. CNN-IBN wishes India's most famous modern artist SH Raza a very happy birthday. It takes an attendant and a wheel chair to get Syed Haidar Raza close to his canvas but...
09:03 AM, Feb 22, 2012
A painting is not a bond. A sculpture is not a share certificate. You like an MF Husain or Tyeb Mehta painting because you can look at it for hours and marvel at the brush strokes that evoke history, politics, religion, philosophy; interpreting the scope of human existence itself within the four corners of an otherwise mute canvas. It is a thing of beauty. And you appreciate it. That is...
09:25 AM, Jan 21, 2012
London: Two significant paintings of legends MF Husain and SH Raza will be the highlights of a Sotheby's auction here next week that is expected to fetch in excess of 2.8 million pounds. Sotheby's sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art on May 31 Comprises 62 lots, several with unprecedented provenance. Raza's 'Bindu', with an estimate of 400,000-600,000 pounds, is an important work executed in 1985 and is one...
01:03 PM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: Paintings by MF Husain and SH Raza among other modern and contemporary artists figure among the highlights of Indian art in two upcoming summer sales abroad. "The Sixth Seal" by Husain estimated at 500,000 pounds and exhibited at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art's 'India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art' in 1982, is up for bidding at Sotheby's South Asian modern and contemporary art sale scheduled...
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