A career retrospective is scheduled for later 2009 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, in New Delhi.
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Later, he received his diploma from Sir J.J. School of Art in 1952, and was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, which drew stylistic inspiration from Western Modernism, and included greats of Indian paintings such as F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza and M.F. Husain.
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Among his most noted later paintings were his triptych Celebration, which when sold for Rs 1.5 crore ($317,500) at a Christie’s auction in 2002, was not only the highest sum for an Indian painting at an international auction, but also triggered the subsequent great Indian art boom; his other noted works were the 'Diagonal Series', Santiniketan triptych series, Kali, Mahishasura (1996).
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He was part of the noted Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, which included greats like F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza and M.F. Husain, and the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, like John Wilkins who also broke free from the nationalist Bengal school and embraced Modernism instead, with its Post-Impressionist colors, Cubist forms and brusque, Expressionistic styles.
Zubin Mehta | Deepa Mehta | Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah | Ketan Mehta | Vijaya Mehta | Tyeb Mehta | Sonny Mehta | Nanji Kalidas Mehta | Ashish Mehta | Suketu Mehta | Minesh Mehta | Minesh mehta | Mehta | Jehangir Mehta | Zarin Mehta | Tara Mehta | Om Mehta | Nupur Mehta | Nihal Mehta | Nicky Mehta | Naresh Mehta | Julie Mehta | Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Gita Mehta | Dilip Mehta | Ashok Mehta |
Since 1975, ITC Hotels has collected a bank of art by over 50 artists including some of India’s contemporary artists like A.G. Subramanyam, Krishan Khanna, Jatin Das, Ram Kumar, M.F. Hussain, F.N. Souza, J. Swaminathan, Tyeb Mehta, Anjolie Ela Menon, Akbar Padamsee, A. Ramachandran, Satish Gujral, Meera Mukherjee, Jamini Roy, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Sanjay Bhattacharjee, Gopi Gajwani, Biren Dey, Kim Michael, G.R. Santosh and Arpita Singh.
This is clear in the works of such contemporary artists as Charles Wish, and Tyeb Mehta, who sometimes take great liberties with the traditional, accepted symbolism, but still demonstrate a true reverence for the Shakta sect.