Auction sets record for highest-value sale in South Asian art history

Tyeb Mehta's new record matches Amrita Sher-Gil's to become second most expensive work by an Indian artist

Weeks after late Maqbool Fida Husain’s painting, Untitled (Gram Yatra), set a new record for modern Indian artwork, going for a staggering Rs 118.7 crore ($13.75 million) at a Christie's auction, Saffronart’s 25th Anniversary Live Sale set another world record – for the highest-value auction of South Asian art.

 

Saffronart’s auction of 75 works, on April 2, achieved a total sales value of Rs 217.81 crore ($25.62 million), and the online auction on April 3 bagged Rs 27.43 crore, together accounting for Rs 245 crore. It also set a world record for Tyeb Mehta, whose seminal work, Trussed Bull, 1956,