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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…
File on Telegram 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
