India, Nov. 7 -- A private art collection is rarely shown in public, inadvertently shutting out some of the most brilliant and valued art. Of the handful of collectors who make their art accessible, the Dabriwalas are one.

The industrialist family, that resides between Singapore, Mumbai and London, will showcase a selection of abstracts by Indian modernists at the annual Art Mumbai fair, between November 12 and 15.

Titled Vyakt Avyakt (the manifest and the unmanifest), the exhibition features paintings of V S Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee, S H Raza, G R Santosh, Jyoti Bhatt and other modernists. The paintings explore tantra, mythology, iconography and the cyclical energy of creation and destruction. "A lot of artists paint in the divine stat...