Standard Chartered Bank - Digital Partners for AstaGuru's Art for Sight

Standard Chartered Private Bank partners with AstaGuru as Digital Partners for AstaGuru’s online auction “Art for Sight” . It is a philanthropic initiative aimed at raising funds towards the Bank’s ‘Seeing is Believing’ programme. ‘Seeing is Believing’ is the Bank’s global programme that is aimed at tackling avoidable blindness and visual impairment. This online auction is scheduled for September 7-8, 2014. Standard Chartered Bank is the digital partner for AstaGuru’s online art auction.

Over these two days clients shall have exclusive access to 83 pieces of art by renowned artists. AstaGuru.com will auction 83 lots of exclusive artworks of Indian Modern Masters such as M.F.Husain, S.H.Raza, F.N.Souza, Ram Kumar, Sakti Burman, Krishen Khanna, Akbar Padamsee, and Contemporary artists such as Justin Ponmany, Milburn Cherian and Baiju Parthan. A percent of the proceeds of this event will be contributed towards ‘Seeing is Believing’ (SiB) and the Bank will match every dollar raised.

Speaking about the Art Auction, Sanjeeb Chaudhuri, Group Head, Brand and Chief Marketing Officer, Standard Chartered Bank said “We believe that with wealth comes responsibility. Together with our clients we want our individual actions to make a collective difference. At Standard Chartered, we believe in being ‘Here for Good’ which translates into a commitment towards building a sustainable bank, keenly supporting initiatives aimed at community development and making a difference by going beyond philanthropy.”

AstaGuru.com is one of India’s largest online auctioneers of art, dealing with the most respected modern and contemporary artists in India. On its fifth edition of Modern and Contemporary auction, AstaGuru brings together rare and exciting artworks from various parts of India for its collectors all across the globe. The auction starts on Sunday 7th September 10:30 am and shall be concluded on Monday, 8th September, 2014 at 09.30pm I.S.T. Closing time for specific lots are mentioned online.

No. of Paintings: 83 lots

Auction Date: Sunday 7th and Monday 8th, September 2014

Auction Website: astaguru.com

Time: Sunday 10:30 am until Monday 9:30 pm

About “Seeing is Believing”

“Seeing is Believing” is the Bank’s global programme which raises money to tackle avoidable blindness across the world. It is a collaboration between the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness and Standard Chartered, to fund sustainable eye-care services in areas of poverty and high need across the world. Launched in 2003, the initiative has grown into a multi-million dollar global programme reaching over 45 million people to date and raised more than USD 63 million. Standard Chartered matches, dollar for dollar, all donations made to this programme. In India, the programme has benefited nearly 7.2 million people.  In partnership with its trusted non-government organisation partners, the bank provides poor communities access to eye care services through 77 vision centres across 10 states.

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