Hyderabad, Oct. 18 -- Hyderabad does not often get an art exhibition of this calibre. Shows that bring together the biggest names in modern Indian art usually stay in Mumbai and Delhi. If you want to see an MF Husain or an Amrita Sher-Gil up close, you generally have to travel for it.

This weekend, you don't.

ShowKeen, an exhibition by the Mumbai auction house AstaGuru, opened at the Hitex Exhibition Centre on Saturday, October 17. It has been held in Mumbai and Delhi before, but this is its first time in Hyderabad, and it ends on Sunday, October 18.

The show features 33 artists. Apart from Sher-Gil and Husain, there are SH Raza, FN Souza, Krishen Khanna and Bikash Bhattacharjee, painters whose work usually turns up in museums and auct...