Read those key points again and you will be hard put to reconcile them. If the contemporary Indian art market has crashed out, investors or collectors should be able to lay their hands on contemporary art at prices much cheaper than they were a few years, or even a year, ago. With less art selling, there should be more art available in the market. And those looking for a bargain should be spoilt for choice.
In a sign of the increasing recognition of the Indian art on world canvas, 26 works from contemporary Indian artists would go under the hammer at the International auction house Christie's Spring 2008 sales of Asian Contemporary Art.
Art was in the news again last week. After the success of the Osians sale, every journalist in town wanted a story and viewpoint on the art market, the history of the Amrita Sher-gil which made Rs 6
Atul Dodiya comes from the Kathiawad area of Gujarat and was born in 1959, almost a century after the regions most famous son, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. By then the leaders symbolic acts of