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 high for Indian art ...

In 2006, he left India after death threats from Hindu hardline groups over his depictions of deities. For nearly five decades, the record-breaking painting unassumingly adorned the walls of a ...