Legendary painter M F Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), billed as one of his most important and sizable works from the 1950s, went for $13.8 million (over R118 crore) at an auction, setting the new record for the most expensive work of modern Indian art.

The sale, which took place at a Christie auction in New York on March 19, nearly doubles the previous record-holder, Amrita Sher-Gil’s 1937 “The Story Teller”, which fetched around $7.4 million (R61.8 crore) at an auction in Mumbai in 2023.