Gender gap narrows on canvas, but India still to catch up on trend

As volume of work as well as prices fetched by women artists in global auctions improve

In May this year, a Sotheby’s event in New York witnessed a landmark — women artists outnumbered men at the auction house’s evening sale for the first ever.

Some 60 per cent of the works assembled had been created by women, a 55 per cent increase on the equivalent sale last November.

It is true that while female artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Jenny Saville and Frida Kahlo have made it to the list of the most popular and best-selling artists worldwide, they are yet to match the likes of Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh in terms