'While the western art world is replete with tales of the relationship shared between artists and their assistants — including Jeff Koons, who married his former assistant Justine Wheeler — in India, this liaison remains unacknowledged. Part of the periphery that supports the artiste, they are the underside that is hardly ever spoken of. Now, with art works and money involved getting bigger, the need for skilled assistants is on the rise, and, in the process, of receiving recognition.'

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