Some of the broken plate paintings here are still bracingly hideous.
Atul's wife, Anju Dodiya, 41, and Chittrovanu Mazumdar, 49, have both broken $75,000; paintings by Shibu Natesan, 39, and Subodh Gupta, 41, command $50,000-plus 50,000-plus
With stretchers fragmented and reconstructed so they poke out into 3D space, hers are half-broken paintings that have come back to life.
In 1977, Drachmanns House was broken into and four paintings were stolen, and then in 1980, a painting by Christian Krogh was stolen from Skagens Museum.
Old Master paintings are broken down into thousands of pixels, each represented by a single spool of thread.
Most sets have been broken up and individual paintings widely dispersed.
Pictures of trees, families, SpongeBob and princesses are interspersed with paintings of broken hearts, knives, fire trucks and a building marked UNISF (UNICEF).
Which is likely why the old clip of the making of Holton Rower's "pour paintings" has broken the internet with its morphing, mushy magic.
They knew that last year two of his paintings broke the million-dollar mark at this annual auction, which despite its name now takes place in Reno, not Idaho.
Their conversations, his extraordinary paintings, break open the narrow constraints of her existence, connecting her with the bold, eager girl she used to be, the dreams she long ago folded up and put away.
