After Gaitonde and Raza, who are the new Old Masters of Indian art world?

Subodh Gupta is set to enter the big league but there are others too

Seen through the eyes of billionaire collectors and big-ticket auctions, the art world invariably points to a list of signatures that keeps the cash registers ringing: V S Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, and S H Raza whose work 

commands tens of crores at auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Following his death on Monday, the work of Akbar Padamsee is also expected to fetch a higher price this year.  

But who are the next big-hitters of the Indian art world? Yamini Mehta, Sotheby’s deputy chairman, Indian and South Asian Art, deflects the question by making a broader point. “We look at the