''Kali'' is a 1997 painting by

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Tyeb Mehta Tyeb Mehta (26 July 1925 – 2 July 2009) was an Indian painter, sculptor and film maker. He was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group and the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, like John Wilkins who also broke fr ...

depicting the

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with a gouged mouth. Painted in 1997, the work was sold in May 2005 for 10 million

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s at Indian auction house Saffronart's online auction. According to the ''

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'', it is a "dramatic, disturbing work"."''Tyeb Mehta's 'Kali' fetches Rs. 1 crore''"
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