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Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore's rare handwritten letter, in which he expressed his reservations about English translations of his short stories, fetched more than Rs 21 lakh at an online art auction this week...
Tagore's letter, which was addressed to Satyabhushan Sen, was a part of auction house AstaGuru's 'Collector's Choice' Modern Indian Art..
AstaGuru Auction House's Senior Vice-President (Client Relations) Sunny Chandiramani said that Tagore's correspondences, in general, remain highly sought-after among collectors, according to a report by The Times Of India...
As part of the AstaGuru's 'Collector's Choice' Modern Indian Art auction, artwork by Bengal School artist Nandalal Bose, Padma Shri awardee K Laxma Goud and iconic modernists SH Raza and Krishen Khanna also wet under the hammer..
The two-day auction saw a collection of over 200 artworks, which also included some of the finest Indian modernists such as MV Dhurandhar, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, MF Husain, Akbar Padamsee, VS Gaitonde and Manit Bawa, among others...
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