{"id":296318,"date":"2026-02-13T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:56:13","slug":"5-indian-artists-whose-paintings-now-sell-for-crores-at-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296318\/","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":296319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[140999,307,304,305,306,308,93,141004,61,141001,141003,141000,141007,60,39996,141002,141006,141005],"class_list":{"0":"post-296318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-amrita-sher-gil","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-highest-valued-indian-artists","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-indian-art-auctions","18":"tag-indian-modern-art","19":"tag-indian-paintings","20":"tag-indias-frida-kahlo","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-maqbool-fida-husain","23":"tag-sayed-haider-raza","24":"tag-tyeb-mehta","25":"tag-vasudeo-s-gaitonde"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}