Sotheby's.(CURRENT)(Brief article)

The Asia Week auctions at Sotheby's include Chinese ceramics and works of art on March 17 and Indian and Southeast Asian works of art and paintings on March 18. The highlights of the latter sale are primarily Indian paintings: an oil on canvas entitled Horses by the contemporary Indian painter M. F. Husain, estimated at $120,000 to $180,000; a 1960 nude in oil on canvas by another living Indian painter, Akbar Pad-amsee, estimated at $200,000 to $300,000; and a miniature painting from a copy of about 1780 of the Sunday Shringar, a Hindi poetic text dealing with the moods of love and the classification of heroines composed by Sundar Kavi, a poet favored by the ...