Sotheby English news | Sotheby, Latest News & Live Updates in English | English News (Latest English News) at Lokmattimes.com

The sale took place at the Sotheby's auction house on Monday. Going under the hammer was the "Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Helen Barbier Family Collection", an offering of 29 artworks from one of the finest collections of 20th century Indian art in private hands.When Khakhar (1934-2003) first unveiled "Two Men in Benares" in Mumbai in 1986, he became the first Indian artist to freely disclose his sexual orientation through his work.The painting shows two naked men in embrace. It "is the most explicit of what the artist himself called his 'efforts to come-out in open', and to create a new iconography of homosexual love", Sotheby's said on its website.Khakhar was India's pioneering openly gay artist.Widely considered among the artist's best works, the painting later starred in Tate Modern's 2016 "You Can't Please All" exhibition of Khakhar's work, the first retrospective of an Indian artist to be held at the institution, Sotheby's said.Other works of art at the auction included M.F. Husain's "Marathi Woman" (1950) that sold for $553,146; a rare figurative work by Ram Kumar, "Untitled (Man and Woman Holding Hands)" painted as a present for the artist's wife in 1953, sold for $659,960.The "Anatomy of that Old Story" (1970) from Rameshwar Broota's 'Ape' series also sold for $537,887.Ishrat Kanga, Head of Sales ay the global auction house said: "These exceptional results are a fitting tribute to the pioneering spirit of Guy and Helen Barbier, who passionately sought out exceptional examples of Indian art at a time when few others thought to."They collected with a 'coups de coeur', acquiring works that they truly loved and with a real commitment to discovering and celebrating Indian art."Another sale on Monday here saw Francis Newton Souza's monumental Untitled painting being sold for $1.5 million.Described by the artist himself as a 'probable masterpiece', the painting tells the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders which has been being rendered artistically in Europe, most notably since the European Renaissance.( With inputs from IANS )

Home

City

Latest News

Cricket

LT Premium

National

International

Maharashtra

Opinions

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Nagpur

Entertainment

Photos

Business

Technology

Sports

Lifestyle

Social Viral

Lokmat Games

Health

Ahmedabad Plane Crash

Pune Bridge Collapse

Maharashtra News

Mumbai Local

Weather Update

Mumbai Rains

SothebyFOLLOW

Sotheby, Latest News

Entertainment :Art is recession-proof: Sotheby's India Chairman

(life) As Sothebys Chairman for the Middle East and India, Edward Gibbs has seen a remarkable rise in art buyers from India over the past decade. With a slowdown banging hard on the doors of the Indian market, life caught up with Gibbs to discover h ...

International :Rare Nike trainers sold for $437,500 in New York

A rare pair of Nike's "Moon Shoe" designed by the sportswear giant's co-founder has sold for a record-breaking $437,500, breaking the world auction record for a pair of sneakers, according to New York auction house Sotheby's. ...

Business :Auctioneer Sotheby's announces its acquistion for $3.7 bn

International auction house Sotheby's has made a formal announcement of its acquisition by French-Israeli telecommunications mogul Patrick Drahi for $3.7 billion. ...

International :Bhupen Khakhar's painting on homosexuality breaks auction record

"Two Men in Benares", a 1980s painting by Indian contemporary artist Bhupen Khakhar has set a new auction record for the painter by selling at a whopping $3.2 million here. ...