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Lot No. 23
M F HUSAIN
1915-2011

UNTITLED (WOOD CUTOUT)
66.5 x 52 x 1 in ( 169 x 132 x 2.5 cm)
Acrylic on wood
1992
Signed & Dated: Bottom Left
` 20,00,000 - 25,00,000 | $ 24,390 - 30,488

Published: ‘The Eternal Master - Selected
Works 1941-2011’ by The Arts Trust, 2024

Provenance: Property from a collection based
in Mumbai.

The greatness of Maqbool Fida Along with several solo exhibitions he
Husain surpasses the idea of time and had major retrospectives in Mumbai
generations, continuing to be single- in 1969, in Calcutta in 1973 and New
handedly credited for putting modern Delhi in 1978. He has participated in
Indian art on the world platform. many international shows which include
Although his works were influenced by Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy
Western art movements like Cubism of Arts, London 1982; Six Indian Painters,
and Expressionism, they were also Tate Gallery, London 1985; Modern Indian
unrelentingly anchored to his roots. Born Painting, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington
in Pandharpur, Maharashtra in 1915, 1986 and Contemporary Indian Art, Grey
Husain moved to Mumbai at the age of Art Gallery, New York 1986. Husain was
20 and worked through many challenges awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973,
to emerge as a forerunner of modern the Padma Vibhushan in 1989 and was
Indian art. nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986.
The artist passed away in 2011.
A self-taught painter, he reached
Mumbai determined to become an artist.
Initially, Husain apprenticed himself to a
painter of cinema hoarding. He would
paint these with great dexterity, perched
on scaffolding, often in the middle of
traffic. Husain was noticed for the first
time in 1947 when he won an award at
the annual exhibition of the Bombay Art
Society. Subsequently, he was invited
by Souza to join the Progressive Artists
Group. Cover of the publication with the work illustrated.