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# Work by the Indian poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore sets a new auction record: From Across the Dark, executed in ink, poster paint and wax crayons, was sold at an online auction for $1.2 million, which is more than…
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/rabota-indiiskogo-poeta-i-khudozhnika-rabindranata-tagora-ustanovila-novyi-auktsionnyi-rekord-from-across-the-dark-vypolnennaia-tushiu-plakatnoi-kraskoi-i-voskovymi-melkami-byla-prodana/
- Published: 2026-01-13T15:36:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:21.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Art, People

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Although interest in Indian modernism is growing, and Tagore's works long ago won international recognition, it is unlikely that his pictures will appear at auctions outside India: as early as 1976 they were declared a national treasure and banned from export.

Incidentally, the Nobel laureate in literature, known above all as a poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore turned to painting only at the age of sixty. I [wrote](https://theparnassian.com/anna-meri-robertson-mozes-bolee-izvestnaia-kak-babushka-mozes-amerikanskaia-khudozhnitsa-samouchka-odna-iz-glavnykh-predstavitelnits-primitivizma/?ref=theparnassian.com) recently about the self-taught American artist Grandma Moses, who took up painting when she was already over 70.