"Thought to be only oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi, which he sat for, this was a special work, which had never been offered at auction,” said Rhyanon Demery, Bonhams Head of Sale ...

Derakshani, a celebrated poet, painter, musician and performance artist, is known for dynamic brushstrokes that reflect the influence of Western abstract expressionism and coupling them with pieces ...

“I’ve been drawing and painting as long as I can remember,” she said. She studied at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, as well as the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England.

In 1892, she went to study at the Slade School of Art in London and later moved to Paris, where, at the age of 25, she met her husband, Casimir Dunin-Markievicz.