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Tyeb Mehta was one of the most celebrated of India’s Modernist painters, whose work broke auction records. In 2005 Mehta’s painting Mahisasura (1997; shown above), an image of the Hindu buffalo-demon defeated by the goddess Durga, sold at Christie’s New York for $1.58 million, the highest price ever paid for the work of a living Indian artist