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Home is where the art is, whether it's a masterpiece or a lesser creation

The first rule is to pick up something you can live with for a lifetime. If you're into collecting as an investment, what matters as much as the artwork is its creator and previous owners

'The Red Road’ by F N Souza (pictured), 'Yatra' by M F Husain and 'Saurashtra' by S H Raza have been registering record breaking sales and steady interest even post pandemic
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'The Red Road’ by F N Souza (pictured), 'Yatra' by M F Husain and 'Saurashtra' by S H Raza have been registering record breaking sales and steady interest even post pandemic

Namrata Kohli New Delhi
Art is his psychotropic fix--the more he gets, the more he wants. Novelist Jeffrey Archer, in fact, says one of the reasons he writes is so that he can collect impressionist paintings. 

What can one expect in terms of themes, moods and subjects in a post-pandemic scenario? The paintings represent an outpouring of pain and grief at one end, and a ‘golden’ period of reflection and self-discovery at the other. Yet, the art world went into crisis in the time of Covid-19, with purchases beginning to be regarded as a unnecessary indulgence as people lost jobs and businesses crumbled.

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