The closure of the Art Today Gallery in Delhi?s prime property area, Connaught Place, was meant to mark the end…
Antiquities obviously have a different way of being priced from the works of contemporary art. But for a collector, works…
Once more, the Christie?s auction catalogue for its sale on September 19, 2002, at New York, confirms our view that…
Collecting art with a proper eye to investment is not an easy task. It certainly cannot be learnt from scouring…
The ancient Indian theorising on aesthetics is centred around the individual psyche. This is not surprising; it counterbalances the categories…
The Osian Trust auction that is slated for August 14, in Mumbai, despite claims of being a curated auction, is,…
It was over lunch with a collector friend that I heard a tale that would prove a cautionary one for…
From the angle of price, I have always considered Bengal artists the best. The reason is that these artists, whether…
The exhibition of the photographs of Laurent de Gaulle, the French cultural attache, in aid of the Diabetic Selfcare Foundation…
When a gallery or collector stocks works, it is always for the future. Immediate profits are not made in art…
The way things sell varies considerably. What one gallery sells in a day another may never sell at all. Does…
The collector of contemporary art, as opposed to the collector of antiquities or decorative artifacts, has a particular vision of…
A major exhibition of Indian contemporary art, featuring no less than 50 artists from all over the country, is on…
One of the most important things to understand in today?s world with its advances in information technology is that while…
The on-line sale of works of art by the internet auctioneers, http://www.saffronart.com, that took place between May 13 and May…
Selling art is a complex business. In essence, a work of art is part of the productive process. It is…
Art sales are not like sales of consumer goods, in general. The collectors neither buy in bulk nor do they…
Indian art has been selling from websites for quite some time now. And Saffronart.com is one of the better-known websites.…
