Raja Ravi Varma’s 19th century painting Yashoda and Krishna has been bought for €15.4 million (17.97 million dollars) to become the most expensive piece of Indian art to be sold at auction.
The luminous oil-on-canvas depiction of an infant Krishna and his foster mother Yashoda set a new record at a Delhi auction last week. Its value far exceeded pre-auction estimates which topped around €11 million.
