Put these four paintings on one wall and a visitor will say the same word about all of them. Blue. Then they will move on, because once you have named the colour there seems to be nothing else to name. Thehrav, Neelkanth, Submerged Structures and Sea Change are near-identical on every record that exists — and they are not remotely the same painting.

The most interesting collectors emerging right now didn't come from old money or the academy. They built companies. What they bring isn't cultural fluency — it's comfort with ambiguity, and a trained instinct for signal before consensus. Which is exactly what abstraction has been waiting for.

You don't need to decode abstract art. You need to slow down long enough to let it arrive.