Patwant Singh's Art Collection Heads to Auction at Sotheby's in New York | Global
NEW DELHI â Patwant Singh (1925-2009) was one of India's most important tastemakers and scholars, and an indefatigable champion of India's design and art fraternity. Now his family's art collection is headed to auction at as part of Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale in New York on Mar. 16, including works by many of those artists he campaigned for and counted among his close friends. According to Sotheby's, the 12 works on offer were acquired by either Patwant, or his sister and her husband (Rasil and Romen Basu), who both worked for the United Nations in New York an...