# @sothebys on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeFoyk8FScA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71365679-sothebys-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-04T21:50:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sotheby's (@sothebys) — https://gondola.cc/sothebys

## Caption

History was made in the #SothebysLondon sale room this week when Bhupen Khakhar’s painting ‘Old Men Playing Chess’ quadrupled its high estimate in the Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Auction. It set a new auction record for the artist, achieving £3.1 million.

‘Old Man Playing Chess’ was included in Khakhar’s historic 1972 solo exhibition at ‘Truth is Beauty and Beauty is God’ at Gallery Chemould. It belongs to a group of brightly colored neo-miniaturist paintings that Khakhar made late 60s and early 1970s.

The Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Auction totaled £19.8 million, becoming the department’s highest total in its more than 30-year history. 

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