Fake modern Indian art market fattens on budget buyers (With Images)
August 6th, 2012 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) After faking art works of contemporary Indian masters like S.H. Raza and F.N. Souza, the underground copy market has turned its attention to India's top ... Read more...
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Spotlight on M.F. Husain, price consciousness (Art Fair Review)
January 30th, 2012 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) A surge of interest in icon M.F. Husain's art, curiosity about new media work, price consciousness and the realisation that European modern classics can be ... Read more...
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Indian art collectors’ space getting new look
January 29th, 2012 - 5:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Art collection in India has seen some exponential change in the last 15 years. The fledgling culture of private archives to free art from the ... Read more...
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Affordable Art Fair comes to India
October 28th, 2011 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The growing Indian art market has opened its door to the prestigious Affordable Art Fair -- a global showcase-cum-sale of affordable art by young contemporary ... Read more...
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Art collectors’ tribe growing in India (Feature)
September 25th, 2011 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Emerging art collector Prerna Kohli is not as intimidated by art galleries as she was 10 years ago."I want to own works by Paresh Maity ... Read more...
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E-commerce changing India’s art mart: Saffronart CEO (Interview)
September 15th, 2011 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) E-commerce sites are changing the way people buy art in the country, says Dinesh Vazirani, CEO of India's biggest online art auction house Saffronart. The ... Read more...
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Tyeb Mehta’s last work open to viewers
January 12th, 2011 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The last work of Indian contemporary master artist Tyeb Mehta that he painted just before his death in 2009 has been thrown open for viewing in a ... Read more...
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Arpita Singh sets record as art mart booms again
December 11th, 2010 - 5:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The boom is back in the auction market. With Arpita Singh's "Wish Dream" mural selling at Rs.9.6 crore ($2.24 million) - a record for an Indian woman ... Read more...
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Padamsee’s painting sells for Rs.2.52 cr at Osian’s auction (With Images)
June 24th, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The trend of resurgence in the art auction market continued with a composition by Akbar Padamsee, "Nude", notching a winning bid of Rs.2.52 crore, at the Mumbai-based ... Read more...
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Sabavala sets price record at Saffronart art summer sale
June 21st, 2010 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Eighty-eight-year-old artist Jahangir Sabavala, one of the early modern masters, set a new price record for his work, "The Casuarina Line 1" at Rs.1.7 crore ($374,900) at ... Read more...
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Indian art market has consolidated since 2010: Neville Tuli
June 10th, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Indian art market has witnessed a period of consolidation in 2010 and the coming months will see further strengthening, predicts Neville Tuli, founder-chairman of ... Read more...
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Indian art mart churned - and moved on (Flashback 2009)
December 15th, 2009 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Art has always been an enduring bet. The Rs.2,000-crore (Rs.20-billion) Indian art market managed to hold its own despite a 30 percent drop in prices ... Read more...
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Bawa sets new price record at global online auction (With Image)
December 14th, 2009 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Saffronart, the Mumbai-based online auction house for fine art and jewellery, set a global price record for Manjit Bawa's untitled canvas at Rs. 1.7 crore against an ... Read more...
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Art auction comes to your cell phone
September 6th, 2009 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Imagine bidding for art or even jewellery on your cell phone! Auction house Saffronart has just made it possible, with its CEO, Dinesh Vazirani, saying ... Read more...
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Art market looking up - India Art Summit proves it (With Images)
August 27th, 2009 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) After a year that saw a price drop of at least 30 percent across all segments of modern and contemporary art and a purge of ... Read more...
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Indian art market gets a reality check
July 19th, 2009 - 2:45 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) If there were a brighter side to recession, it's in the Indian art market right now. The bubble has burst, sifting out the investors from ... Read more...
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India’s art fair ropes in big global galleries (Weekly art column, Rainbow Palette, With Images)
May 22nd, 2009 - 10:25 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The second edition of the Indian Modern and Contemporary Art Fair 2009, the sub-continent's official art fair, will be bigger, better and more global this ... Read more...
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India Art Summit ends on mixed note in the capital
August 24th, 2008 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The curtain came down on the India Art Summit 2008 in the capital on a mixed note as a pall of gloom descended on the participants and ... Read more...
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‘Indian art market is becoming global’
August 23rd, 2008 - 12:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) The high and mighty in the world of Indian art and its western promoters are now in the sprawling arena of the capital's exhibition grounds to take ... Read more...
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India’s first art summit kicks off
August 22nd, 2008 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India joined the elite club of global art hotspots Friday, with the India Art Summit 2008 being inaugurated here as a showcase of modern and contemporary art ... Read more...
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With young artists priced high, masters sell better
April 26th, 2008 - 10:28 am ICT by admin
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) In an interesting trend in the Indian art market this summer, parity in prices between works by contemporary artists and modern masters is prompting buyers ... Read more...
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