In July this year Sotheby’s in New York auctioned several Indian artworks among nearly 100 that were put up for sale. The purpose of the auction was noble. The proceeds were to attend the part expenditure of KMOMA, an upcoming art museum in the city.
Kolkata Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, or KMOMA, is slated to come up on a 10-acre plot in Rajarhat the total outlay for which is a princely Rs.500 crore.
If Sotheby’s has done its bit, why not Christie’s? And so for the first time in the city, Christie’s debuted last evening when about 26 works were put under the hammer at the spacious lawns of the Calcutta Club.
The TOI reports that the show was a sellout, garnering about Rs.92 lakhs. The Dunlop-cum-Jessop boss, Pawan Ruia, emerged the top bidder, shelling out Rs.20.5 lakh for two Paritosh Sen paintings and a Chattrapati Dutta work.
Yesterday’s earnings minus other expenses and Christie’s fees if any will go to KMOMA, the Kolkata International Foundation of Art, Literature & Culture and the Chief Minister’s Fund. Noble money, nobler cause, won’t you say!
[Picture above shows a Paritosh Sen self-portrait that was part of exhibition that took place in Singapore in July, 2006; image source; no relation intended with yesterday’s Calcutta Club auction]
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