Indian contemporary artists to feature in Sotheby's summer sale
London, June 23 (IANS)

Eight works by leading Indian contemporary artists, including Subodh Gupta and Bharti Kher, will feature in Sotheby's summer sale here on July 1-2, 2008. The other Indian artists whose works will be put up are Anish Kapoor, Raqib Shaw and T.V. Santhosh. The works are together estimated in excess of 2 million pounds. The sale will also include a work by Pakistan's leading contemporary artist, Rashid Rana.

Highlights of the group will be Subodh Gupta's Untitled from 2005, which is estimated at £200,000-300,000. The Untitled canvas depicts a vessel stall glistening in the pink dawn of sunrise and is one of the artist's most important and powerful photo-realist paintings to ever come to the market.

Bhart Kher's sculpture, "Misdemeanours", which is estimated at £40,000-60,000, Anish Kapoor's Untitled sculpture from 2003, estimated at 1-1.5 million pounds, and Raqib Shaw's "Chrysanthemum & Bee" (after Kotsushika Hokusai), estimated at £80,000-120,000 are also part of the sale.