• March 30, 2006: At the Christie's auction in New York March 30, the total sales topped $15.6 million - up from the first sale of $640,000 for Indian art in 2000

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• Tyeb Mehta work - "Falling Figure with Bird" - sold for $1.2 million. Raza is also in the million-dollar plus class with his canvas "Tapovan" that fetched $1.4 million.
  

NRI collectors:

• NRI Umesh and Sunanda Gaur.(USA) : One of the most well-known collections of post Independence Indian contemporary art in the US. The couple who began collecting a little over a decade ago have chosen to concentrate on some two dozen artists, mostly the Progressives.

  In 1974, Umesh moved to the US to get a Ph D in chemistry now runs a highly successful money management firm in New Jersey. His wife is a paediatrician.

  Like most American art collectors, they too have a penchant for enriching society. In 2003, Art + Antiques magazine voted Gaur as one of America's top 100 collectors. Gaurs have put together a smaller show exclusively from their own collection.

• Sharad and Mahinder Taq, Washington DC: East coast are Sharad and Mahinder Taq from Washington DC who had a considerable headstart and acquired works of art aggressively throughout the late 1980s and 1990s.
  
  
• Arani Bose, the neuro-surgeon turned art dealer is another collector who has built a vast collection of mainly younger artists.
  
  
• Kent Chitlangia who became famous for buying Husain's "Lightning Horses" for a record Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million).
  
  
• Guru Deepak Chopra who is known to collect for some time now.