New Delhi, Aug 21 - A rare piece of work by Tyeb Mehta, M.F. Husain's 'Bewildered Brown' and a range of miniature Jataka paintings sourced from a private Indian collector will be the highlights of Sotheby's sale of Indian art in New York Sep 17.

'Behind Me Desolation' by Tyeb Mehta, one of India's leading modern artists, who died in February, is estimated at $350,000 while 'Bewildered Brown' has a hammer price of $120,000, said a press statement issued by Sotheby's Thursday.

The miniatures have been culled from the collection of Aananda K. Coomaraswamy, an authority on Indian and southeast Asian art. Coomaraswamy worked in Sri lanka, India and finally America, where he set up the first ever department of Indian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

A collector of repute, he built a collection of rare Mughal, Rajput and Pahari paintings.

'Behind Me Desolation' was previously sold in an auction of Indian paintings in June 1995, Sotheby's first-ever stand-alone sale of contemporary Indian art.

According to sources at Sotheby's, it is one of Mehta's typical 1970 works that was characterised by monumental drawings with a sculptural feel.

The painting is dominated by a central figure that can be seen as an expression of Mehta's anguish at the trauma and dislocation of the individual in contemporary society. Mehta was influenced by the partition of the country.

Other highlights include an untitled work by V.