Indian mural that spent decades on Norwegian hospital wall sells for record $13.8m
A forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece by Indian painter MF Husain, rediscovered decades later, has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide mural, sold for an unprecedented $13.8m (£10.6m) at a Christie’s auction in New York last week. It shattered the previous Indian high of $7.4m (£5.7m) fetched by Amrita … Read more