Following the success of the Aga Khan sale in October, works from the collection of Seattle-based Mary and Cheney Cowles will ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...

In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...

Looking back at the history of Calcutta, it was nothing short of a potpourri of different foreign presence. From the Dutch, ...

For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India’s most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions. In March, one of the late painter’s monumental depictions of rural ...

A long-forgotten painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India’s most important modern artists, is going under the hammer for the first time. The rediscovered portrait is expected to fetch up to $2.8 ...

In 2008, the National Museum of the American Indian mounted a retrospective of the work of the 20th-century Figurative artist Fritz Scholder. It titled the show “Indian/Not Indian,” referring to the ...

We are delighted to introduce our upcoming Islamic & Indian Art auction taking place on Wednesday 10 December. The Islamic art section features excellent examples of Ottoman art (lots 1 -13) followed ...

Three days after a court in India ordered the seizure of two paintings by late artist MF Husain over a complaint that they were “offensive,” the gallery displaying them strongly opposed the “unfounded ...

There was a time when Indian modern art was largely collected within intimate circles, industrial families, cultural patrons, and a handful of serious connoisseurs. Today, that world has expanded ...

The new report of the IIMA-Aura Indian Art Index suggests the art auction market, while growing rapidly, remains heavily ...