Approx Sales of Indian Art World Wide

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Quote for the day –Pablo Picasso

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' Sold For 106.4 Million US$

I think this sale should be another big motivator for artists to be committed to their work and keep creating new paintings. Even thou Picasso might not have earned so much money, but who brought his paintings are benefited, because they had the courage to buy and enjoy the paintings and keep it for so many years, and in this recessionary time, they could unlock the true value for their investment.

A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction.
"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 million and $90 million, was sold at Christie's auction house on Tuesday evening to an unidentified telephone bidder.
There were nine minutes of bidding involving eight clients in the sale room and on the phone, Christie's said. At $88 million, two bidders remained. The final bid was $95 million, but the buyer's premium took the sale price to $106.5 million.
Conor Jordan, head of impressionist and modern art for Christie's New York, said he was "ecstatic with the results."
"Tonight's spectacular results showed the great confidence in the marketplace and the enthusiasm with which it welcomes top quality works," he said.
The striking work of Picasso's muse and mistress Marie-Therese Walter has been exhibited in the United States only once, in 1961 in Los Angeles to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Picasso's birth. The painting, which measures more than 5 feet by 4 feet, shows a reclining nude figure with an image of Picasso in the background looking over her.
The painting had belonged to the late California art patron Frances Lasker Brody, who bought it in the 1950s. It had been kept in her family since then.
Part of the sale proceeds will benefit the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., where Brody was on the board.
The previous record for a work of art at auction was $104.3 million for "Walking Man I," a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti sold on Feb. 3 at Sotheby's in London. The previous high price for a Picasso work was $104.2 million for "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," attained in 2004 at Sotheby's New York.
On Wednesday, another rarely seen Picasso is slated to sell at Sotheby's auction house. "Woman in a Hat, Bust" is a 1965 work inspired by Jacqueline Roque, the last love of Picasso's life. It is estimated to sell for $8 million to $12 million.
The work hung for 50 years in the Manhattan apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of former President John F. Kennedy. It's being sold by her estate.
Information courtesy NYT.

Quote for the Day –Claude Monet.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet

Journal of the Artist- Motivators.

· Many a times, people keep asking, since how long I am painting. My first painting was of a Ganesha, where I had taken the outline from a magazine and painted it up. I got good reviews from family and friends. -That was when I was in school, maybe 7th standard.

· When I showed one of my landscapes to one the senior Lecturer Mr.Ramesh from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, he said, "Prasad, you do not need my help, you just need practice".

· When Mr. Krishna Rajendra Kumar-Senior lecturer of KCP, did introduce me to Dr.Kamalakshmi, he said that Prasad is the only student in the whole of this class who create the painting spontaneously.

· When another day when I visited KCP after many years, Mr.Krisha Rajendra Kumar remembers my paintings and introduced Mr.Sutradhar -Head and Reader of Sculpture, he said the same, that I create the painting spontaneously.

· When government people were kind enough to sponsor my exhibitions, just by seeing my paintings.

· When Gallery Owners themselves being artists, sponsored my solo shows for more than a month.

· When Newspaper people did find time to look at my paintings and were kind enough to publish my paintings on a Front page of their newspaper. (South India’s highest circulated newspaper).

· When I read my own poems, which I might have written 20 years ago, I did create a painting based on the contents of the poem.

· When people started buying prints of various sizes of my paintings.

· When I keep reading the life's of other Great Artists, their struggles, their achievements.

· When I keep looking back, I want to create something for my family, which is unique and which would maybe live on after my time is up.

· When I keep getting newsletters from other artists around the world about art and artists.