Sotheby’s scores with 30 original works and a record sale

Sotheby’s achieved a double first in London this week with an auction of 30 South Asian paintings that had never before been offered for public sale, and then sold an explicitly homosexual work by Bhupen Khakhar, one of India’s most controversial modern artists, for £2.54 million, more than doubling the artist’s previous auction record.

Two Men in Benares