Moon Moon Sen, Anupam Roy, Koneenica Banerjee and more dropped by at the exhibition, curated by Kounteya Sinha and Oeindrila Ray Kapur from the vaults of art collector Kamal Parekh
Fate lines have curious crossings. My newly reconnected old colleague, Kounteya, was curating a selection of 43, rarely seen, large Jamini Roys. Cruelly I was leaving town just before its opening. But serendipitously I got .
Certificates of authenticity can be unreliable in cases where distant relatives of dead artists or sometimes even gallerists generate them. Checking the provenance of the painting - establishing each step of where it went from the artist s studios or gallery, who bought it, when and from whom - is the best way to know whether an artwork is real or a fake.
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By Shankar Mridha The Indian art market has no dearth of impressive art and artists, but the same is also true for art forgeries by con artists, who often manage to pass off cheap imitations for the price an original artwork would fetch. From pirated Picassos to cleverly-imitated Husains, Razas, Jamini Roys, and their contemporaries, the Indian art market has had its fair