{"id":477734,"date":"2026-02-13T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:03:15","slug":"5-indian-artists-whose-paintings-now-sell-for-crores-at-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477734\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Indian artists whose paintings now sell for crores at auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often described as India\u2019s Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil occupies a singular place in Indian art history. Trained in Europe but deeply rooted in Indian subjects, she painted intimate portraits of rural life and women with psychological depth.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, her 1937 work The Story Teller sold for around \u20b961.8 crore at a Saffronart auction, briefly holding the record for the most expensive Indian painting ever auctioned. Given that Sher-Gil died at just 28, her limited body of work makes each appearance at auction a major event.<\/p>\n<p>Collectors value her not just for aesthetic brilliance but for historical importance, she was instrumental in shaping modern Indian art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Often described as India\u2019s Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil occupies a singular place in Indian art history. Trained in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[243050,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,243055,243052,243054,243051,243058,119157,243053,243057,243056],"class_list":["post-477734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-amrita-sher-gil","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-highest-valued-indian-artists","tag-indian-art-auctions","tag-indian-modern-art","tag-indian-paintings","tag-indias-frida-kahlo","tag-maqbool-fida-husain","tag-sayed-haider-raza","tag-tyeb-mehta","tag-vasudeo-s-gaitonde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}