Jyeshtha Krushna Trayodashi, Kaliyug Varsha 5113
The painting of Goddess Kali by Tyeb Mehata that fetched Rs 5.72 crore |
Appeal to devout Hindus
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Detailed News about the auction
Calcutta: A painting of Goddess Kali by Tyeb Mehta went for Rs 5.72 crore at Saffronart’s auction, setting a record for Indian art through online bidding.
The painting in moss green, Untitled (Kali), fetched several times more than the estimate of Rs 1.25 crore to 1.75 crore. The price at the June 15-16 auction could have spiralled even further but the bidding time closed.
Only on June 9, a Mehta painting — (Untitled) Rickshawpuller — had fetched $3,238,103 (around Rs 14 crore) at a Christie’s summer auction. This was the highest sum paid for a Mehta work and the second highest for a work of a contemporary Indian artist. S.H. Raza’s Saurashtra, which sold in the same sale last year for Rs 14.18 crore, holds the record for being the most expensive piece of Indian art of our times.
This time, however, Kali set the record in Indian art through an online bid of Rs 4.61 crore, only to be trounced by another anonymous buyer who offered an extra crore and a little more.
The Kali painting, one of Mehta’s three images of the goddess, at 30 inches x 24 inches, is almost half the size of the rickshaw puller.
In the 1980s, he worked as the artist in residence at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan and these works are attributed to that period.
Source: The Telegraph
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