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Article: Indian modern art fetches 4.28 million pounds in London auction
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- The Hindustan Times
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- May 3, 2008
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London, May 3 -- A painting by Francis Newton Souza fetched the top price of 580,500 pounds - outperforming old masters Tagore and Jamini Roy - at an auction of Indian modern and contemporary art at Sotheby's Friday.
The painting, tilted The Red Road, was hotly contested by at least seven bidders before selling to a client on the telephone, Sotheby's said
One of the stars of the sale, the canvas was a gift from Souza, who died in 2002, to his wife Maria in 1962, a period widely acknowledged as the artist's most successful. The painting was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1989.
The Souza was among 120 ...