kolkata osiansconnoisseurs of art concluded the first osianama series auction with total sales of rs 74481600 90 of value of the total lower estimate and 605 of total quantity which saw osians bringing antiquities modern and contemporary fine arts and vintage indian film memorabilia together under the same platform the modern contemporary fine arts section attracted the highest bids with vs gaitondes 1969 untitled work going for rs 12600000 followed by shanti daves 1974 untitled work valued at rs 11400000 and manjit bawas 1989 work death of safdar hashmi at rs 7200000 shanti daves work set a new record for the artist other paintings which elicited interest from the bidders were shibu natesans early 2000 against the wind canvas and jogen chowdharys 1988 ink and pastel style crosshatching technique work man with cheetah which went for rs 3000000 and rs 2880000 respectively of the total 75 lots in the modern contemporary fine arts section 42 were sold 560 per cent for inr 61494000 at an average lot price of rs 1514857 these are still substantially lower than the 20067 nearly 3035 lower levels but an improvement of roughly 1518 over the 201112 averages among the highlights of the indian miniatures was an illustration from the harivamsa which sold at rs 3120000 followed by a mandi school devi series devis battle with mahisha which sold at rs 1260000 the vintage indian film memorabilia section featured hindi cinemas forgotten and silent era black white memorabilia with records being established for the rare photographic stills from gangavataran 1937 the first and the last talkie film by dadasaheb phalke one single still went for rs 102000 the other highlights in this section were the dilip kumar set of photographs at rs 162000 with amitabh bachchan following with rs 126000 the recapturing of its leadership position by the osians auction house the impending launch of its arts culture and cinema search engine theosianamacom and the forthcoming publication of 100 volumes on celebrating 100 years of indian cinema in collaboration with mapin publishing will mark the reemergence of osians as the pace setter in the indian art and memorabilia market neville tuli chairman osians group said our aim is to slowly and steadily rebuild the arts and cultural artifacts market