The Economist's An atmosphere of heat

Paintings by Tyeb Mehta, another early associate of the same group, rarely fetched more than $10,000 seven years ago. Yet last September two of his works topped $1m at auction, and Christie’s sees no sign of this interest fading. A fine example of one of his obsessive “oblique line” paintings, in which a diagonal line is painted in, running from right to left and often rendered over his figures, is expected to touch a new record when it is offered for sale at Christie’s in New York later this month.
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