24. Cave Paintings:

The cave paintings are also known as the ‘parietal art’. They can be usually seen on cave walls, ceilings of prehistoric origin and dates back to 40,000 years ago in Eurasia. The cave paintings are not often clear and what seems clear is they have tried to convey some information. Due to their antiquity, much of their paintings cannot be deciphered properly.

Expensive Indian artists’ Paintings:

Take a look at some of the most expensive Indian works of art that have been sold.

1. The Untitled:

Gaitonde painted an untitled painting in 2015 and was bought by an anynymous buyer for $4,415,008 in December 2015. This kind of painting was an oil canvas was one of India’s best abstract painters and is the most expensive Indian artwork to be sold since 1965, according to Artery India, an art market intelligence firm.

2. Birth: Francis Newton Souza:

This oil on board, painted by Souza in 1955, was sold for a $4 million at a Christie’s, New York, auction in 2015. Birth is considered one of the most important paintings of the Goa-born artist’s career and was featured in his first solo show at Gallery One in London. The art centres around the concept of birth. This painting was sold at a Christie’s auction in 2008 for $2.5 million, which was then a record price for a work of modern Indian art.

3. Saurashtra: Syed Haider Raza:

The auction of this acrylic on canvas by Christie’s, South Kensington, in 2010 was record-breaking back then. It was costly because Raza himself considered this to be one of the 10 most important works of his life. Saurashtra, the art was painted in 1983 after Raza had already explored Ecole de Paris and Abstract Expressionism, and had begun to include elements of his Indian heritage into his art.

4. Radha in the Moonlight: Raja Ravi Varma:

This was yet another oil on canvas that was originally in the collection of Shungrasoobyer Avergal, the dewan of Travancore. This particular Radha is one of the most beautiful of Ravi Varma’s uttama nayikas, who is a high-minded woman of many virtues and qualities that define goddesses in classical Indian literature. Varma subsequently painted other canvases of Radha in varying moods and emotions.