1937), Ashvamedha, painted in 2008. This is also the highest price achieved by an Indian woman artist at auction globally, and a world record price for an artwork sold at any online auction. Untitled | Mumbai | oil on canvas | 74 x 74 cm. Her experience as a weaver influenced the evolution of her artistic vocabulary. ‘There’s so much going on in Ashvamedha, as there is in all Singh’s paintings,’ says Avari. Buyers spent a total Rs 102 crore,the second-biggest splurge at a Christie s auction for Indian art. Painted in 2008 Photo: © Rohit Chawla, Get the best stories from Christies.com in a weekly email, *We will never sell or rent your information. Arpita Singh. They were all born just before, or during, the Second World War and came of age in the late 1960s. Her … Arpita Singh's paintings are informed by and address the multiple histories she has witnessed and narratives she has played a part in developing, ranging from the personal to the national. Arpita Singh was born in West Bengal in 1937. Arpita Singh is best known for her figurative oil paintings that explore the intersections between the private and public lives of women, although drawing is equally central to her oeuvre. View artworks for sale by Singh, Arpita Arpita Singh (217, Indian). Christie's has been in the business of putting collectibles under the hammer for over 260 years, ... Nalini Malani, Nasreen Mohamedi, Anju Dodiya and Arpita Singh, according to the organsiers. Additionally, Singh's body of figurative work frequently draws on the private and public lives of women like herself, and on the external events that act on them. From Museum of Art & Photography , Arpita Singh, Couple (Undated), Watercolor on paper, 35.5 × 45 cm It was after his death in 2002, more than 140 pictures were sold by Christie’s. Frail or exposed female bodies — usually naked — are commonplace in Singh’s art: in the 1994 watercolour Girl in White, for example, which also came to auction in March 2019. ‘Her prices are definitely appreciating,’ says specialist Nishad Avari of the octogenarian artist, whose dream-like watercolours and oil paintings have drawn comparisons with Marc Chagall. Singh is known for her exuberant colours, especially bright pinks and blues, as well as for applying her paint in thick impasto. Instead, it tends to be allusive and dreamlike, featuring free-floating, gravity-defying figures in the manner of Marc Chagall. 60 x 108½ in (152.4 x 275.6 cm). Ashvamedha, Arpita Singh. According to Christie's, which opened its first office in Mumbai 20 years … Arpita Singh Security Check Signed and dated 'ARPITA SINGH 2003' (lower right) 2003 Watercolour on paper pasted on board 21.75 x 32 in (55.4 x 81.1 cm) PROVENANCE: Christie's, New York, 19 March 2009, lot 1024 Private Collection, Maharashtra. when an upcoming sale includes items that match this interest. Her oil paintings and watercolours are renowned for the tantalising stories they tell, often from a female perspective. Illustrated with works previously sold at Christie’s. (152.4 x 275.6 cm.) Ashvamedha, 2008, by Arpita Singh | Source: Christie’s Asia/Instagram. Singh, unlike those artists, is still producing art, and there is a strong chance of several masterpieces, which have been previously unseen at auction, coming to the market in the near future — especially if her market stays strong or grows still further. Often it alludes to Indian mythology, as with Ashvamedha (2008), below, a triptych that appeared in the South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art sale  at Christie’s New York in March 2019. NEW DELHI: Works by Indian modernists including Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, Manjit Bawa, S H Raza, F N Souza and Arpita Singh will go under the hammer at Saffronart's upcoming Modern Indian Art sale on December 5-6.

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