Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman

Untitled; On The Way To Border

Found at Sothebys, Mumbai
Boundless: India, Lot 18
15. Nov - 15. Nov 2019
Estimate: 200.000 - 300.000 INR
Price realised: 250.000 INR
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman
1921 - 2015
UNTITLED; ON THE WAY TO BORDER
R. K. Laxman was part of an illustrious Chennai based family that also includes award winning novelist R. K. Narayan. Laxman was known throughout India as an iconic humourist and cartoonist whose work featured in the daily pages of the Times of India for over fifty years.
Quantity: 2
Signed ‘R. K. Laxman’ lower left and lower right; Signed ‘R. K. Laxman’ lower right, titled and dated ‘On the way to / Border - / 22.12.66’ lower left and further titled and dated ‘On the way to Border-66’ on reverse
Ink and pencil on paper
38.1 x 27.94 cm. (15 x 11 in.); 27.9 x 36.8 cm. (11 x 14.5 in.)
Acquired directly from the artist, Mumbai, 2004

Auction result well in line with expectations

The work Untitled; On The Way To Border by Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman was sold in the Boundless: India auction at Sothebys in Mumbai in November 2019. The price achieved of INR 250,000.00 (€ 3,153.64) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as INR 200,000.00 – 300,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Untitled (Man Lying In The Verandah); Untitled (The Parsi Girl) , which sold at auction in November 2018 for INR 687,500.00 (€ 8,682.55).

Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen

Die Arbeit Untitled; On The Way To Border von Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman wurde im November 2019 in der Auktion Boundless: India bei Sothebys in Mumbai versteigert. Der dabei erzielte Preis von INR 250.000,00 (€ 3.153,64) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit INR 200.000,00 – 300.000,00 angegeben worden. Für andere Arbeiten von Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Untitled (Man Lying In The Verandah); Untitled (The Parsi Girl)  beobachtet, die im November 2018 für INR 687.500,00 (€ 8.682,55) versteigert wurde.

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