Tag: portrait

A beautiful oil on canvas by the legendary Amrita Sher-Gil, the Sikh-Hungarian painter who died at the age of 28 in 1941, sold for Rs 61.8 crore ($7.4 million) in a Saffronart sale on Saturday night, making it the most expensive work of Indian art sold at auction worldwide.In fact, this comes barely 10 days after modernist Syed Haider Raza’s painting titled ‘Gestation’ fetched Rs 51.7 crore at Pundole auction house.Raza’s ‘Gestation’, which features his signature bindu, now becomes the second most expensive Indian artwork while abstractionist Vasudeo...