Painting

Hindu Janajagruti Samiti stated Amazon was selling "obscene" Radha-Krishna artwork on August 19. According to the organization, a memorandum was sent to Bengaluru's Subramanya Nagar police station asking for action against the website. Following the outrage, the Hindu organization stated that the painting was taken "… read-more

A lost Pablo Picasso painting, Femme Couche VI (Reclining Woman VI), was discovered above the sofa in the house of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos. The painting's authenticity, however, remains unknown. The painting portrays a woman lying on a couch with her palm on her forehead. Reportedly, the Marcoses used stolen money to buy almost 300 art pieces by artists such as Picasso and Michelangelo. 

A painting by German expressionist Franz Marc, returned last year from a museum to the descendants of a Jewish collector who fled the Nazis, will be auctioned. The rare painting features 'The Foxes (Die Füchse)', featuring two brightly colored, intertwined foxes. "It'll be an amazing moment for the art world because Franz Marc's important pictures are incredibly rare," told Jussi Pylkkänen to Reuters.

Jasna Salim, a 28-year-old Muslim homemaker who only draws paintings of Lord Krishna with butter pot, gifted one of her paintings to Sree Krishna Swamy temple in Ulanadu in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district. Salim aka 'Kannaa' said she ''started painting Lord Krishna by mistake''. However, her husband helped her to pursue her passion. Salim said, she tried to ''paint various images'' but she's best at painting little Krishna.

A 1961 untitled oil canvas was sold at Rs 39.98 crore on March 11 became the most expensive Indian art in an auction. Sold at Saffronart Spring Auction, the masterpiece was made by abstract painter VS Gaitonde. Interestingly, the previous record was also held by the abstractionist's work that was sold for Rs 36.80 crore. Currently, the most expensive artwork in the world was sold for $450.3 million.