Gulgee’s Buzkashi sells for record £61,000 at Bonhams art sale

Buzkashi - a stunning painting by one of Pakistan’s foremost modern artists Ismail Gulgee led a strong selection of works by major South Asian artists at Bonhams Annual Summer Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian art in New Bond Street, London.

Buzkushi by Ismail Gulgee

The sale included works by well-known Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan artists such as MF Husain, Sadequain, Jamil Naqsh and AR Chughtai, sourced from private collections in Europe and the US. 

The auction presented the largest group of works by Pakistani masters to ever come under the hammer at an international auction. Gulgee’s 1965 work titled Buzkashi – given a reserve price of £15,000-£25,000 - which depicts Afghanistan’s national sport, was one of the highlights of this section, more than doubling its upper estimate to finally go for £61,250.

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How accurate are Leonardo da Vinci's anatomy drawings?

Awhile ago, I posted news about cracking of the codes hidden in the masterpiece of all paintings the Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa by an armature artist.  Now here is something about the anatomical drawings of the Vinci which were drawn more than 500 hundred years ago and are being considered far ahead of its time.

The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace this week. So how accurate were they?

During his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body.

He wanted to understand how the body was composed and how it worked. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on the body was incomplete and his scientific papers were unpublished.

Based on what survives, clinical anatomists believe that Leonardo's anatomical work was hundreds of years ahead of its time, and in some respects it can still help us understand the body today.

So how do these drawings, sketched more than 500 years ago, compare to what digital imaging technology can tell us today?

Find out at: BBC News Magazine

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