Christie ‘s will be engaged with the 5th edition of the India Art Fair in January/February 2013, and partner with ‘Homelands’, an exhibition of British contemporary arts from the British Council collection to tour to Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, which will open in New Delhi on January 22, 2013. Christie ‘s has had a long association with India. James Christie, the enigmatic founder of Christie’s, offered four India pictures painted on glass in his inaugural auction in London in 1776. In 1994, Christie’s opened an office in Mumbai, the only international auction house to have a consistent presence in India, and held its first sale of contemporary Indian art the following year.
