A sumptuous new auction of modern Indian art by AstaGuru is coming up this weekend. The auction house says it has curate the catalogue to include iconic Indian artworks of historical importance as well. Among these is an extremely rare Amrita Sher-Gil, the ‘Portrait of Victor Egan’, 1939, which is making its first-ever auction appearance. The artwork is significant as it ’s a portrait of the legendary artist’s husband painted by her and gifted by her to his family when the couple moved from Hungary to her parental home in Uttar Pradesh, and then Lahore, in 1941.
