The bidding took place at the Saffronart auction house on April 1. Taking to their Instagram handle, they shared a snap of the Indian artwork.

A vaccine billionaire, a 130-year-old mythological canvas, and an auction house holding its breath: on April 1, 2026, in Mumbai, the Indian art market entered a new era. A look back at a historic ...

The painting has surpassed the previous record held by MF Husain's Untitled (Gram Yatra) that achieved over ₹118 crore at an ...

Raja Ravi Varma's one of the most beautiful paintings is for sure ‘Lady in the Moonlight’. The painting features a woman, draped in an elegant attire, a saree blue and red. She is also wearing pearls ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Raja Ravi Varma’s ‘Lady with the Lamp’ or ‘Galaxy of Musicians’ best explains the work of the legendary artist who could see India from the eyes of the common man. The paintings ...

Raja Ravi Varma's 1890s painting 'Yashodha and Krishna' sold for a record-breaking Rs 167.20 crore at a Saffronart auction, ...

The Shaping of an Artist is the first of a six volume series, An Everlasting Imprint, on the legacy of Raja Ravi Varma, India’s foremost modern artist. Ganesh V Shivaswamy has appropriately released ...

In 1857, a nine-year-old boy in Kerala's Trivandrum district began painting elephants and horses on temple walls. His maid complained about him to his maternal uncle, Raja Raja Varma, one of the ...

The story of an institution that cast a long shadow on Indian society for over a century, but whose physical presence has all but disappeared, is the stuff of urban legend. Yet in the case of the Ravi ...

Raja Ravi Varma, often regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Indian Art’, laid the foundation to make art accessible to the common man. With the use of European art techniques, Varma became the pioneer of ...

Raja Ravi Varma, born on April 29, 1848, in Kilimanoor, Travancore (present-day Kerala, India), emerged from a family steeped in scholarly and literary traditions. His mother, Uma Ambabayi Thampuratty ...