Sotheby’s Indian Art May 2
Published April 21st, 2008
Sotheby’s annual sale of Indian Art in London will take place on Friday, May 2, 2008.
The sale will offer 120 lots of exceptional quality and provenance which trace the course of Indian Art over the last century encompassing important works by key figures of the Modern Indian Art movement such as Francis Newton Souza and Akbar Padamsee through to the cutting edge Contemporary names of Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher and Jitish Kallat.
The sale will also be highlighted by eleven exceptionally rare works from the collection of the late William and Mildred Archer, two remarkable scholars who played a fundamental role in bringing Indian Art to the fore.
The auction is expected to realise in excess of £2.4 million.
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