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Dhamini Ratnam

Mumbai

Associate Editor at Hindustan Times

Journalist, Hindustan Times. Tweet sporadically. Only share stuff I read. Pitch me ideas, send me reads. [email protected]

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  • 3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Dhamini Ratnam

    In July, an oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi made by Clare Leighton, an artist renowned for her wood engravings, will be auctioned for the first time — believed to be the only oil portrait of the Mahatma. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi will form part of Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration Sale to be held online between July 7 and 15. The 30 1/8 x 25” canvas is priced between GBP 50,000 and 70,000 ( ₹ 58 lakh and ₹81 lakh).

  • 3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Dhamini Ratnam

    Posted On: 2025-06-05 Posted By: Dhamini Ratnam Education Technology Cities International Hindustan Times India, June 5 -- Dadiba Pundole recollects the day towards the end of 2003 when Maqbool Fida Husain walked into the Pundole's art gallery, located in Fort, Mumbai, and asked Dadiba to postpone the next exhibition, as he wanted to use the space as a studio.

  • 3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Dhamini Ratnam

    MUMBAI: Dadiba Pundole recollects the day towards the end of 2003 when Maqbool Fida Husain walked into the Pundole’s art gallery, located in Fort, Mumbai, and asked Dadiba to postpone the next exhibition, as he wanted to use the space as a studio. “He told us, ‘I’ve lived through the 20th century, and I want to document it in paint’,” Dadiba said. That very evening, buckets of paint and rolls of canvas arrived.

  • 1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Dhamini Ratnam

    Back in 2006, at a modern and contemporary Indian art sale by Sotheby’s auction house in London, a bidding war over a work by Francis Newton Souza drove up the Goan modernist’s work to over 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million). The underbidder who lost out was Neville Tuli, whose paddle became a topic of conversation in subsequent news articles.

  • 1 month ago | htsyndication.com | Dhamini Ratnam

    Mumbai, May 5 -- Back in 2006, at a modern and contemporary Indian art sale by Sotheby's auction house in London, a bidding war over a work by Francis Newton Souza drove up the Goan modernist's work to over 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million). The underbidder who lost out was Neville Tuli, whose paddle became a topic of conversation in subsequent news articles.

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11 Jan 25

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