Aicon opened in London's posh Mayfair district this March in a 4, 000-square-foot space formerly occupied by top-flight contemporary dealer Gagosian.

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"More than half the works in our first show were bought by non-Indians, " says Prajit Dutta, a Columbia University economics professor who runs Aicon, the largest gallery of Indian contemporary art in the U.S., with showrooms in Palo Alto, Calif.

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