When Gujarati Muslims Dominated Bombay Politics

'They wanted the city to be a great business hub. They didn't like the fact that taxes collected in Bombay would go outside the city.' IMAGE: Anjuman-E-Islam was established in 1874 by a group of......

Farewell, gentle giant

Kishore Singh salutes Akbar Padamsee, the legendary painter who passed into the ages last fortnight. IMAGE: Legendary painter Akbar Padamsee who died at 91 on January 6, 2020. Photograph: Kind......

This painting sold for Rs 19 crore!

‘Greek Landscape’ is now the most expensive painting by Akbar Padamsee.  Akbar Padamsee’s ‘Greek Landscape’ fetched a record Rs 19.19 crore at Saffronart’s......

Kolkata museum raises $ 1.5m at Sotheby's

A range ofmodern and contemporary Indianartwent under the hammerat Sotheby's in New York on July 17 onbehalf of the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art and raised$15,10,560for the museum. Work by painters......

I-T dept seizes Nirav Modi's vast art collection

Among the seizures were Indian masters such as FN Souza, VS Gaitonde, SH Raza, Amrita Sher-Gil and Akbar Padamsee, sculptures from Italy and the US, Chinese artwork and masterpieces by Xu Lei and......

Tyeb Mehta's painting fetches Rs 11 crore at Sotheby's auction

Modernist painter Tyeb Mehta's work Blue Painting sold for over Rs 11 crore (1.1 million pounds) at Sotheby's London auction, which grossed Rs 46.4 crore (4.6 million pounds), the highest......

Nirav Modi's paintings auctioned for Rs 59.37 crore

An untitled work by the abstract artist V S Gaitonde fetched a winning bid of Rs 25.24 crore, making it the most expensive bid for an artwork from the country ever. IMAGE: The above painting by......