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Times of India – Goa Edition highlights works by Goan artists slated to appear in AstasGuru’s upcoming ‘Masters Legacy’ Modern Indian Art auction.

“Rare works by three Indian artists from Goa — F N Souza, V S Gaitonde and António Xavier Trindade — will go under the hammer this week, including a 1957 art piece, ‘Girl in a yellow sweater’, valued at around Rs 6 crore. The ‘Etruscan Group’, another F N Souza work which dates back to 1987, is also up for auction with a tentative value of Rs 2 crore,” says the article.

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Scheduled to be held on April 29-30, 2022, the ‘Masters Legacy’ auction presents a stellar collection of rare and unseen works by the Avant-Garde of Modern Indian Art. Several of the works are making their auction debut.

We are pleased to announce that the catalogue for AstaGuru’s upcoming ‘Masters Legacy’ auction is now live on our website.

Slated to be held on April 29-30, 2022, ‘Masters Legacy’ showcases works from the oeuvre of India’s leading modernists like M.F.Husain, F.N.Souza, J.Swaminathan, S.H.Raza, Krishen Khanna, Jamini Roy and Nicholas Roerich to name a few.

The auction features an exceptional selection of rare and unseen works by the Avant-Garde of Modern Indian Art, making their auction debut thereby, concluding our month-long celebration of our master’s glorious legacy in the #MonthOfMasters.

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