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Auction All India | Reuters | Updated: December 12, 2014 ...This Painting By Tyeb Mehta Sold for Over Rs. 17 Crore at a Christie's Auction
Christie's
World Art head William Robinson (C) gestures as he auctions a painting
by Indian artist Tyeb Mehtha at an hotel in Mumbai, during Christie's
second auction in India, December 11, 2014
New Delhi:
An online buyer from New York overcame spirited bidding
to grab a painting by modern Indian artist Tyeb Mehta for $2.8 million (Rs. 17.37 crore) at a Christie's auction in Mumbai, highlighting global interest in the finest works of Indian art.
Mehta's untitled 1999 painting, with the central figure of a falling bull, sold to the private bidder at the auction late on Thursday, beating pre-sale estimates of between $1.3 million and $1.9 million (Rs. 8 to12 Crore)
Bidding for the acrylic on canvas had started at $800,000 (Rs. 5 Crore). Mehta, who died in 2009, had been consistently inspired by the iconography of the bull.
An earlier work by Mehta, an oil on canvas titled "Girl In Love", was snapped up by an Asian buyer for nearly $700,000.
In all, 72 percent of the lots were sold at prices above their high pre-sale estimates. Eight of the 78 lots were unsold on a night that saw total sales of $12 million (Rs. 75 Crore) in a luxury Mumbai hotel sale room packed with 400 guests.
"We doubled the pre-sale estimate of $6 million, so indeed we are very happy," said Sonal Singh, head of the Christie's office in Mumbai, adding the auction showed "deep interest in Indian art and the depth of this market".
Collectors are increasingly drawn to rare modern works from the golden period of masters like Mehta and Vasudeo Gaitonde.
"We see very spectacular prices for them that reflect their desirability," Amin Jaffer, international director of Asian art at Christie's, told Reuters before the auction.
Art analysts ArtTactic said in a May report confidence in the Indian market was at its highest since 2007.
TAGORE'S POCKET BOOK
A pocket book belonging to Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, was sold for $331,325 (Rs. 2.08 Crore). The item, with poems and notes by Tagore in the Bengali language, was listed as a non-exportable national art treasure. It sold for four times its pre-sale estimate.
An untitled 1947 oil on board painting by Francis Newton Souza that depicts an Indian family sold for $1.45 million (Rs.9 Crore)
An oil on canvas by modernist Gaitonde went for a little over $1 million (Rs. 6 Crore). New York's Guggenheim Museum is exhibiting Gaitonde, one of whose works was sold for a record $3.4 million (Rs. 23 Crore) at Christie's inaugural India auction last year.
Mr Jaffer told Reuters in an interview this month that India was falling behind China as an emerging art powerhouse because it rarely gets involved in international art fairs or invests in new museums to promote artists.
($1 = 62.4350 rupees)
Mehta's untitled 1999 painting, with the central figure of a falling bull, sold to the private bidder at the auction late on Thursday, beating pre-sale estimates of between $1.3 million and $1.9 million (Rs. 8 to12 Crore)
Bidding for the acrylic on canvas had started at $800,000 (Rs. 5 Crore). Mehta, who died in 2009, had been consistently inspired by the iconography of the bull.
An earlier work by Mehta, an oil on canvas titled "Girl In Love", was snapped up by an Asian buyer for nearly $700,000.
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In all, 72 percent of the lots were sold at prices above their high pre-sale estimates. Eight of the 78 lots were unsold on a night that saw total sales of $12 million (Rs. 75 Crore) in a luxury Mumbai hotel sale room packed with 400 guests.
"We doubled the pre-sale estimate of $6 million, so indeed we are very happy," said Sonal Singh, head of the Christie's office in Mumbai, adding the auction showed "deep interest in Indian art and the depth of this market".
Collectors are increasingly drawn to rare modern works from the golden period of masters like Mehta and Vasudeo Gaitonde.
"We see very spectacular prices for them that reflect their desirability," Amin Jaffer, international director of Asian art at Christie's, told Reuters before the auction.
Art analysts ArtTactic said in a May report confidence in the Indian market was at its highest since 2007.
TAGORE'S POCKET BOOK
A pocket book belonging to Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, was sold for $331,325 (Rs. 2.08 Crore). The item, with poems and notes by Tagore in the Bengali language, was listed as a non-exportable national art treasure. It sold for four times its pre-sale estimate.
An untitled 1947 oil on board painting by Francis Newton Souza that depicts an Indian family sold for $1.45 million (Rs.9 Crore)
An oil on canvas by modernist Gaitonde went for a little over $1 million (Rs. 6 Crore). New York's Guggenheim Museum is exhibiting Gaitonde, one of whose works was sold for a record $3.4 million (Rs. 23 Crore) at Christie's inaugural India auction last year.
Mr Jaffer told Reuters in an interview this month that India was falling behind China as an emerging art powerhouse because it rarely gets involved in international art fairs or invests in new museums to promote artists.
($1 = 62.4350 rupees)
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Tyeb Mehta's canvas sold for Rs 15 crore at Christie's auction
The
Mehta canvas, dating back to 1999, for which the Christie's was
expecting a maximum price of Rs 12 cr, got picked up through an online
bid from New York
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Renowned artist Tyeb Mehta's untitled canvas depicting a falling bull fetched a whopping Rs 15 crore at the second edition of Indian art auction held by the Christie's in Mumbai on Thursday.
The Mehta canvas, dating back to 1999, for which the Christie's was expecting a maximum price of Rs 12 crore, was bought through an online bid from New York. The identity of the buyer was not revealed.
Bidding started at Rs 5 crore and the price kept rising till it reached Rs 14 crore when calls with overseas buyers resulted in longish pauses, before the final bid was made.
The amount paid for the work is the hammer price and excludes buyer's premium and applicable taxes.
The London-based Christie's conducted its first India art auction on December 19 last year, when it sold a work by the late Vasudeo Gaitonde for a record Rs 28 crore, the biggest price ever paid for an Indian painter's work.
The house auctioned 78 lots, down from 83 last year. Other works which fetched high prices included Francis Newton Souza's untitled work depicting an Indian family, sold for Rs 7.5 crore, Mehta's oil on canvas 'Girl in Love' for Rs 3.6 crore and Syed Haider Raza's 'Les Toits de la rue St Jacques' painted in Paris for Rs 3.8 crore.
Rabindranath Tagore's pocket book in Bengali with 270 leaves of manuscript notes, poems, songs, calculations, doodles and drawings fetched Rs 1.7 crore. Other works such as Gaitonde's untitled work painted in 1998 were sold for Rs 5.5 crore.
The Mehta canvas, dating back to 1999, for which the Christie's was expecting a maximum price of Rs 12 crore, was bought through an online bid from New York. The identity of the buyer was not revealed.
Bidding started at Rs 5 crore and the price kept rising till it reached Rs 14 crore when calls with overseas buyers resulted in longish pauses, before the final bid was made.
The amount paid for the work is the hammer price and excludes buyer's premium and applicable taxes.
The London-based Christie's conducted its first India art auction on December 19 last year, when it sold a work by the late Vasudeo Gaitonde for a record Rs 28 crore, the biggest price ever paid for an Indian painter's work.
The house auctioned 78 lots, down from 83 last year. Other works which fetched high prices included Francis Newton Souza's untitled work depicting an Indian family, sold for Rs 7.5 crore, Mehta's oil on canvas 'Girl in Love' for Rs 3.6 crore and Syed Haider Raza's 'Les Toits de la rue St Jacques' painted in Paris for Rs 3.8 crore.
Rabindranath Tagore's pocket book in Bengali with 270 leaves of manuscript notes, poems, songs, calculations, doodles and drawings fetched Rs 1.7 crore. Other works such as Gaitonde's untitled work painted in 1998 were sold for Rs 5.5 crore.
Source: Business Standard
Tyeb Mehta
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Tayyab Mehta | |
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| Born | 26 September 1925[1] Kapadvanj, Gujarat, India |
| Died | 2 July 2009 (aged 83)[2] Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Sir J.J. School of Art (1952) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work(s) | Celebration Kali |
Among his most noted later paintings were his triptych Celebration, which when sold for Rs 15 million ($317,500) at a Christie's auction in 2002, was not only the highest sum for an Indian painting at an international auction, but also triggered the subsequent great Indian art boom; his other noted works were the 'Diagonal Series', Santiniketan triptych series, Kali, Mahishasura (1996).[3] He stayed and worked in Mumbai for much of his life, except for three spells at London, New York, and Santiniketan, each having a distinct impact upon his work. He received several awards during his career including the Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India in 2007.[4][5][6]
Early life and education
Tayyab Mehta was born on 26 September 1925 in Kapadvanj, a town of Kheda district, the Indian state of Gujarat. He was brought up in the Crawford Market neighbourhood of Mumbai, populated by Dawoodi Bohras. At 22 years, during the partition riots of 1947 in Mumbai, while staying at Lehri House, Mohammed Ali Road, he witnessed a man being stoned to death by a mob, this he not only expressed in a drawing but it was to have lasting impact on his work, leading to stark and often disturbing depiction of his subjects.[4][7]For a while initially, he worked as a film editor in a cinema laboratory at Famous Studios, in Tardeo, Mumbai. Later, he received his diploma from Sir J.J. School of Art in 1952, and was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, which drew stylistic inspiration from Western Modernism, and included greats of Indian paintings such as F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza and M.F. Husain.[8]
Career
He left for London in 1959, where he worked and lived till 1964. Thereafter, he visited the New York City, when he was awarded a fellowship from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund in 1968.[9] During the years the artist spent in London, Mehta's style was influenced by the expressionist works of Francis Bacon, but while in New York his work came to be characterised by minimalism.[10] He made a three-minute film, Koodal (Tamil for 'meeting place'), which he shot at the Bandra slaughter house, it won the Filmfare Critics Award in 1970.[9] He also remained an Artist-in-Residence at the Santiniketan between 1984–85, and returned to Mumbai with significant changes in his work. Common themes of his works were trussed bulls, the rickshaw puller, from here he moved to the 'Diagonal series', which he created through the 1970s, after accidentally discovering it in 1969, when in a moment of creative frustration he flung a black streak across his canvas.[4] Later in life, he added Falling Figures made in 1991, based on his experience of witnessing the violent death of a man in the street during the Partition of India riots of 1947,[11] Besides adding several mythological figures into his work, highlighted by the depictions of goddess Kali and demon Mahishasura.[12]Tyeb Mehta held the then record for the highest price an Indian painting has ever sold for at auction ($317,500 USD or 15 million Indian rupees) for Celebration at Christie's in 2002.[13] In May 2005, his painting Kali sold for 10 million Indian rupees (approximately equal to 230,000 US dollars) at Indian auction house Saffronart's online auction.[14] A reinterpretation of the tale of demon Mahishasura by Mehta showing goddess Durga locked in an embrace with the demon sold for $1.584 million.[15][16][17] In 2008 one of his paintings sold for $2 million.[18]
In December 2005, Mehta's painting Gesture was sold for 31 million Indian rupees to Ranjit Malkani, chairman of Kuomi Travel, at the Osian's auction. That made it the highest price ever paid by an Indian for a work of Indian contemporary art at auction in India at the time.[19]
Mehta's were the first works by a contemporary Indian artist to sell for over a million dollars, and indicated a burgeoning interest in Indian art by the international market; as a result, Mehta became a cultural hero.[18]
Personal life
Tayyab Mehta spent most of life in Mumbai and later in life stayed at Lokhandwala, Mumbai. He died on 2 July 2009 at a Mumbai hospital following a heart attack.[20] He is survived by his wife, Sakina, their son, Yusuf, and daughter, Himani and a number of grandchildren.Awards
He received a fellowship from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund in 1968, also in the same year, a gold medal for painting at the first Triennial in New Delhi, and in 1974 the Prix Nationale at the International Festival of Painting in Cagnes-sur-Mer,[18] France, the Kalidas Samman, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government, in 1988, the Dayawati Modi Foundation Award for Art, Culture, and Education in 2005,[18] and the Padma Bhushan in 2007.[21] His film 'Koodal' was awarded the Filmfare Critics' Award in 1970.[21]Mehta's work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, and the Hirshhorn Museum. A career retrospective is scheduled for later 2009 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, in New Delhi.[18]
Bibliography
- Tyeb Mehta: Ideas Images Exchanges, by Tyeb Mehta, Ranjit Hoskote, Roshan Shahani. Publisher: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2008. ISBN 81-87737-05-0.
Further reading
- Tyeb Mehta, by Georgina and Ulli Beier. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1977.
- Svaraj: a journey with Tyeb Mehta's "Shantiniketan triptych", by Ramchandra Gandhi. Vadehra Art Gallery, 2002. ISBN 81-87737-02-6.
References
- "Tyeb Mehta". Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- "Noted artist Tayyb Mehta dies". The Times of India. 2 July 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- Artist Tyeb Mehta dies after long illness Reuters, 2 July 2009.
- Tyeb Mehta stood for hope over hype Nina Martyris, Times of India, 3 July 2009.
- Tyeb Mehta, who weaved metaphor into images passes away The Economic Times, 3 July 2009.
- Tyeb Mehta was Indias most expensive living artist, also its finest Kishore Singh, Business Standard, 3 July 2009.
- Svaraj: a journey with Tyeb Mehta's "Shantiniketan triptych". by Ramchandra Gandhi. Vadehra Art Gallery, 2002. ISBN 81-87737-02-6. Page 60
- 'I don't paint for money' The Times of India, 14 June 2009.
- Tyeb Mehta: From filmmaker to painter The Times of India, 20 September 2002.
- Tully, Judd. "Tyeb Mehta" Art+Auction, November 2009.
- "Christie's First India Auction Offers Lots from The Gandhys' Collection". BLOUIN Art+Auction magazine. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- Tyeb Mehta passes away Press Trust of India, The Statesman, 2 July 2009.
- Rajamani, Radhika (23 January 2003). "Artist for all times". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 June 2006.
- "Tyeb Metha's Kali fetches Rs 1 crore". Times of India. 20 May 2005.
- "Bull run in art bazaar". Deccan Herald. 28 May 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2006.[dead link]
- Sengupta, Somini (26 January 2006). "Indian Artist Enjoys His World Audience". New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2006.
- "Tyeb Mehta painting fetches $1.54 million". Rediff.com. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2006.
- Cotter, Holland (4 July 2009). "Tyeb Mehta, Painter of Emerging India, Dies at 84". New York Times. Retrieved 23 July 2000.
- "Tyeb Mehta painting sold for Rs. 3.1 crore". Rediff.com. 5 December 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2006.
- Tyeb Mehta dead Hindustan Times. Retrieved on 3 July 2009.
- "Tyeb Mehta". Retrieved 2 July 2009.
External links
- "Tyeb Mehta Profile,Interview and Artworks"
- Sold! Tyeb Mehta at Christie's by Deepak Talwar, Intent Blog, September 24, 2005
- Tyeb Mehta, Tribute site
- Tyeb Mehta- List of Most expensive Indian Paintings
- Tyeb Mehta – Profile
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