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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests artist Bappaditya Roy Chowdhury.

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 ...

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 ...