The New Collector
The huge spurt in young art collectors is expected to boost the Indian art market.
The collecting of Indian art and the tribe of Indian art collectors really started to take shape post Independence. They were a handful of galleries back then, most of which do not exist today... but the real collectors in the 40's and 50's were largely friends, acquaintances and relatives of the artists who loved the artists, and collected their work for the pure pleasure and aesthetics that appealed to their senses. They didn't collect works of art because the artist was well known or for monetary value.
Raja Ravi Varma, who is considered to be among the greatest Indian painters, started what I call the
