“I am one of the few painters who live entirely on his art without resort to teaching or commercial portraits. As for my art, I can confidently say that I am not influenced by anyone and that I am not experimenting”, this self-quote aptly describes Francis Newton Souza (1924 –2002), the person and the artist. Titled ‘Souza – The Enfant Terrible’, Bid & Hammer’s upcoming sale is a…
Bid & Hammer’s first auction of 2021 is the latest in the ‘No-Reserve Auction of Indian Art’ series and is being held online from 4th to 5th February. This edition features Bengal school great Jamini Roy alongside sculptor Chintamoni Kar and other prominent artists, Sunil Das and Lalu Prasad Shaw, from the same region. Abstractionist Prabhakar Barwe’s work once again appears with that…
Bid & Hammer’s ‘No-Reserve Auction of Indian Art II’, online this winter from 4th-5th December 2020, features sculptor Chintamoni Kar and abstractionist Prabhakar Barwe’s works among other stalwarts of Modern & Contemporary Indian art such as B. Prabha, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Suhas Roy, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Rekha Rao, Paresh Maity and Satish Gupta. The USP of Bid &…
In these times of the corona pandemic where creativity and digitalization is the key for businesses to thrive, fine art auction house Bid & Hammer is innovating the technique of silent bidding by conducting it online in which clients can quietly and discreetly place their maximum bids digitally instead of on paper forms. The ‘Silent Bids Auction’ is aimed at the seasoned buyer who is…
Auction house Bid & Hammer is innovating the technique of silent bidding, also called absentee or sealed bidding, by letting clients fill an online form with their maximum bids instead of the norm of physical ‘bid-sheets’. If you want the discretion of bidding at an undisclosed price, this ‘Silent Bids Auction’ of select paintings of India’s master modern & contemporary artists…
In the current covid scenario, Bid & Hammer has pulled off a coup of sorts by convincing a few entrepreneurial collectors of the Indian art world to offer attractive artworks in a ‘No-Reserve Online Auction’ from 4th-10th August 2020. One of the paintings on offer is a trademark Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) oil on canvas ‘Horse’. Estimated at Rs 30, 00,000 – 40, 00,000 but as the…