The paintings start at Rs 50000 and forty four of ninety eight paintings are already sold out. ...
08:58 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Mumbai: Noted painter M.F. Husain has paid his personal tribute to K. Asif's epic film Mughal-E-Azam by recreating the movie's fabulous scenes in a series of exquisite paintings. "I love India. I loved the film and really wanted to show the grandeur and the power the film shows," Hussain said in a 22-minute documentary on K. Asif's timeless classic. Superstar Shah Rukh Khan presented the documentary made by his production...
02:31 PM, Feb 25, 2011
Fatima Karan takes you on a tour of the 3rd India Art Summit being held in New Delhi. ...
10:08 PM, Jan 22, 2011
New Delhi: Art lovers may get to savour MF Husain's paintings at the India Art Summit in New Delhi after all. Organisers had removed them from the event following threats, but now the works are likely to be displayed again as police have assured full protection. An official from the Delhi Art Gallery, which will be showcasing Husain's works at the summit, said they are in "the process" of bringing...
06:22 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Paris: A sensual 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso of his young mistress Marie-Therese Walter which captures his romantic obsession with her went on display at Sotheby's in Paris ahead of an auction next month. It was the first public showing in Europe in some 80 years of "La Lecture," or "Reading," an erotic and brightly colored depiction of the voluptuous Marie-Therese sleeping nude in an armchair, her head thrown back...
12:47 PM, Jan 20, 2011
New York: An Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong that actor Dennis Hopper shot two bullets through sold for $302,500 at Christie's on Tuesday, more than 10 times its high estimate. The 1972 screenprint from Hopper's art collection is done in hues of mostly blues and greens, including a deep blue face for Mao, the founder of the modern communist state. It had been had been estimated to sell for...
01:05 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Toronto: The famous Mona Lisa incorporates images inspired by Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch, says a professor. The technique of taking a passage from literature and incorporating it into a work of art is known as 'invention' and was used by many Renaissance artists, the Italian journal MEDICEA reports. "The composition of the Mona Lisa is striking. Why does Leonardo (da Vinci) have an attractive woman sitting on...
10:51 AM, Jan 08, 2011
London: The Mona Lisa painting continues to throw up mysteries, as art experts now claim to have found a set of tiny letters painted into the eyes of the woman in the Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece. The experts - from Italy's National Cultural Heritage committee - discovered the mysterious hidden message while studying magnified images of the 500-year-old portrait. "In the right eye appears to be the letters LV, which...
04:07 PM, Dec 13, 2010
New Delhi: An Indian auctioneer is set to put Rabindranath Tagore's paintings up for bids at an auction event named, 'Significant Indian Paintings' to be held in the capital later this month. The auction will put 69 paintings by some of the biggest Indian artists including Raja Ravi Varma, Rabindranath Tagore and an original letter from Francis Newton Souza, under the hammer. "We are trying to project unsung heroes of...
11:52 AM, Nov 28, 2010
New Delhi: One of the world's most successful artists and Turner Prize winner, Indian born and London based artist Anish Kapoor is exhibiting in India for the first time. He is also the designer for London's 2012 Arcellor Mittal tower and the United Kingdom's biggest public art space. ...
11:19 AM, Nov 28, 2010
New Delhi: "Significant Indian Paintings' is one of a kind auction to be held in the capital later this month that will put 69 paintings by some of the biggest Indian artists - including Raja Ravi Varma, Rabanindranath Tagore and an original letter from Francis Newton Souza - under the hammer. "The concept of this auction was to show our classical Indian painters doing things they aren't specially known for....
12:56 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Panaji: Ashok Kumar, better known as ‘Dadamoni' and an iconic figure in Indian cinema, used to sketch paintings in the bathroom in the nude, his granddaughter Anuradha Patel said. Kumar, a versatile actor, first made waves with his performance in 1936 with the film Achhut Kanya. "Dadamoni used to paint with water colours in the bathroom… in the nude," said Patel, who along with the rest of the Ganguly (Ashok...
06:20 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Cairo: A Vincent van Gogh painting worth an estimated $ 55 million was stolen from a Cairo museum on Saturday and after reporting it had been recovered, the state news agency quoted a minister as saying that it was still missing. Citing Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, the MENA news agency reported that security men had caught a young Italian couple with a painting by the Dutch post-Impressionist master at the...
03:02 PM, Aug 22, 2010
The nine-day
Rabindra Utsav from Aug 10 will be organised by a NGO, 'Happenings Kolkata', as part of the Bar ...
12:51 PM, Jul 19, 2010
The Libyan leader's artist and reformer son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi kept Russian relations warm when he showed off his paintings. ...
05:29 PM, Jun 29, 2010
Sotheby's auction house is going ahead with a London auction of 12 paintings by poet and painter Rabindranath Tagore. CNN-IBN Senior Editor Sagarika Ghose asks: Should the Tagore paintings have been bought back to India?
03:50 PM, Jun 15, 2010
On Tuesday, 12 of Rabindranath Tagore's paintings will be auctioned at Sotheby's in London. ...
11:57 AM, Jun 15, 2010
Twelve paintings by Rabindranath Tagore are to be auctioned by the Sotheby's on June 15 in London. ...
12:19 AM, May 22, 2010
