Akbar Padamsee’s Greek Landscape (1960), a plastic emulsion on canvas, is an imagined cityscape painted in a palette of varying intensities of grey

Auction house Saffronart’s Evening Sale, its biggest art auction of the year, concluded yesterday in New Delhi with 69 out of 87 lots sold. The sale saw a world auction record for an Akbar Padamsee artwork, titled ‘Greek Landscape’ (1960). The plastic emulsion on canvas, which was part of artist Krishen Khanna’s collection, was estimated between Rs 7 cr-Rs 9 cr and was sold for Rs 19.19 cr, the highest for a Padamsee work till date. Nasreen Mohamedi’s untitled oil on canvas (circa 1960) went for R2.40 cr, making it the artist’s most expensive work and fetching another world record.