Air India will hand over its priceless collections of around 4,000 paintings and sculptures of famous artists to the National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA) for their preservation and public display. The airline signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the NGMA on Wednesday in this regard in the presence of Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy.
The prized collections of the airline include works of legendary artists such as M F Hussain, Laxman Pai, V S Gaitonde, Sayed Haider Raza, Jatin Das, V Prabha, Shankar Palsikar, and Anjolie Ela Menon, among others.
With this MoU signed at an event here, the NGMA, which is a prestigious institution for modern and contemporary arts,