Known for his brilliant Neo-Tantric paintings, Biren De forged an artistic career across five decades, beginning as a portrait painter. The early works were figurative and strongly influenced by Post-Impressionist European painters. He gradually evolved into abstraction and by the sixties had abandoned figuration altogether, developing what became known as his signature "Neo-tantric" style, a mode dominated by concentric rings, crescents and orbs. "My approach to art is exploratory," he once said. "As a child, I very often used to run away from home, just to be able to go somewhere, to see and know about things myself. The same runaway child probably still persists in me. Each blank canvas I take up extends to me the eternal call of adveChristie's Mumbai...