Online Art Auction Achieves Record Sales

Highlights of the Auction

• World Records for Tyeb Mehta and M V Dhurandhar in Saffronart’s Spring Live Auction

• Mehta’s Untitled (Bull on Rickshaw) sold for INR 41.97 crores (USD 5.59 million), achieving world record for his works in auction and second-most expensive work of Indian art sold globally

• Dhurandhar’s Untitled (Draupadi Vastraharan), 1934 sold for INR 8.04 crores (USD 1.07million), achieving world record for his works in auction

• Raja Ravi Varma’s Draupadi Vastraharan sold for INR 21.6 crores (USD 2.88 million), becoming the second-highest price achieved by the artist in auction globally

• Second-highest price achieved in auction for Pilloo Pochkhanawala at INR 1.44 crores (USD 192,000)

F N Souza, Untitled, 1945 Gouache and ink on paper, 13.25 x 19.25 in Sold for INR 96 lakhs (USD 128,000)

M F Husain, Untitled, 1959 Oil on canvas, 38 x 50 in Sold for INR 2.4 crores (USD 320,000)

Manjit Bawa, Untitled, 1979 Oil on canvas, 23.75 x 21.75 in Sold for INR 96 lakhs (USD 128,000)

Pilloo Pochkhanawala, Untitled Wood, 62 x 8.75 x 4 in Sold for INR 1.44 crores (USD 192,000)

Raja Ravi Varma, Draupadi Vastraharan, Circa 1888-1890 Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 in Sold for INR 21.6 crores (USD 2.88 million)

M V Dhurandhar, Untitled (Draupadi Vastraharan), 1934 Oil on canvas, 63.75 x 32 in Sold for INR 8.04 crores (USD 1.07 million)

Bikash Bhattacharjee, Untitled, 1992 Pastel on paper pasted on cardboard, 29.25 x 19 in Sold for INR 20.7 lakhs (USD 27,600)

Jehangir Sabavala, A Blue Lake, A Leafless Tree Oil on canvas, 23.5 x 33.75 in Sold for INR 2.52 crores (USD 336,000)

Surendran Nair, Mohini: An Actor at Rehearsal, (Epiphany) Cuckoonebulopolis, 2014-2015 Oil on canvas, 82.75 x 59 in Sold for INR 40.5 lakhs (USD 54,000)

ALL IMAGES COURTESY TO SAFFRON ART