April 18, 2025
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KNMA at 15: a museum in motion

Weeks before she set a new record for Indian art by buying a lost M.F. Husain painting called Gram Yatra in a Christie’s sale for ₹119 crore, Kiran Nadar was sitting in the conference room of her museum’s Saket outpost, musing about how her art collecting style had grown. “When I’m collecting an artist, I try to […]

MF Husain painting fetches over ₹118 crore, becomes most expensive modern Indian art

‘Gram Yatra’, the 1954 paintingthat left India the same year, remained largely unseen since its acquisition by the Ukrainian-born Norway-based doctor Leon Elias Volodarsky, who was in Delhi to establish a thoracic surgery training centre for the WHO. Photo: Special Arrangement Legendary painter MF Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), billed as one of his most important […]