‘Untitled’ painting fetches $2.8 m |
A masterpiece by one of India’s most important abstract artist Vasudeo S. Gaitonde fetched a whopping $2.8 million at Sotheby’s, leading the sales at a week-long auction of Southeast Asian works of art at the auction house in New York. Gaitonde’s 1960 work ‘Untitled’ sold for $2.8 million during the just concluded ‘Asia Week New York.’ Sotheby’s sales of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian works of art altogether raised $55 million.Gaitonde’s painting, the largest-known canvas by the artist, led both the sales and all of Sotheby’s Asia Week New York auctions.It was commissioned by Air India to commemorate the addition of transatlantic flights to their schedule, the auction house said in a statement.The art sale included works by India’s modern masters, including Amrita Sher-Gil and Raja Ravi Varma, it said.
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