Gaitonde painting breaks world record for Indian art

  16 December 2015    Read: 1590
Gaitonde painting breaks world record for Indian art
An oil painting by an Indian artist has sold for 293m rupees ($4.4m;
Vasudeo S Gaitonde`s untitled painting from 1995 was bought by an anonymous buyer, the auction house said.

The previous record was $4.01m for a work by Goan artist Francis Newton Souza.

Gaitonde, who died in 2001, is considered one of India`s greatest abstract painters.

"It achieved a world record for any Indian work of art sold at auction," Christie`s International Head of World Art William Robinson said.

The auction on Tuesday was the third for Christie`s in India.

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