Artist Tyeb Mehta is dead
Mumbai |Thursday, 2009 11:05:05 PM IST
 

Noted Indian painter Tyeb Mehta died Thursday of a cardiac ailment at a hospital here. He was 84.

The artist succumbed to a heart attack at the Asian Heart Institute hospital, his wife, Sakina Mehta said.

The Padma Bhushan awardee had been ill for the past two years.

At a Christie's auction in June last year one of his works fetched him his highest-ever price of $2 million.

Mehta's canvas "Kali" fetched Rs.10 million in 2005, and his "Celebration" went for Rs.15 million in 2002.

He received the Padma Bhushan in 2007.

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2009-07-02-22:00:02 (IANS)

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