I’d read about this sometime back but did not get the time to post.

Three Indian artists have sold their paintings for a total of $70 Million via an auction on Christie’s. The complete article as reported by DNA can be found here.

I managed to get thumbnails of what the paintings look like - none of the news stories were carrying the pictures and they are as following:

Chintan Upadhyay : Mutant

Ashim : Fake Error

Harsha : Melting Wit

It does get better and better for Indian Art and Indian artists. The above artists are supposed to be “new” on the scene and not in the league of Raza or Hussain but have done exceedingly well in the auction. One of the factors that might contribute to an artist’s paintings’ popularity might be the name of the painting - or it seems from the above.

This is done on A4 size art paper, with ballpoint pen, while traveling in a local train in Bombay!