Amrita Sher-Gil

At Rs 61.8 crore, Sher-Gil sets record for Indian artist | India News

At Rs 61.8 crore, Sher-Gil sets record for Indian artist | India News

A beautiful oil on canvas by the legendary Amrita Sher-Gil, the SikhHungarian 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...

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