Famed Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil’s In the Ladies' Enclosure became the second most expensive Indian work of art sold globally, after fetching a whopping ₹37.8 crore at Saffronart’s recent Summer Live Auction and it set a world record for the highest value achieved by the artist in auction. The most expensive currently is a 1961 untitled work by V S Gaitonde that sold for ₹39.98 crores at another Saffronart sale earlier this year is the most expensive Indian art sold globally. Amrita Sher-Gil was born in 1913 to Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, Hungarian-Jewish opera singer and Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh scholar, photographer and aristocrat. “It is the second-most expensive work sold by Bendre in auction. The highest work sold by the artist was for ₹1.98 crores at Saffronart’s Spring Live Auction earlier in March 2021,” the auction house said in a statement.

Source: Hindustan Times July 14, 2021 11:39 UTC