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Lot No. 38

M F HUSAIN
1915-2011

UNTITLED
42.3 x 50 in (107.4 x 127 cm)
Mixed media on fabric
Circa 1990
Signed: Bottom Right

` 50,00,000 - 70,00,000 | $ 60,975 - 85,365

Provenance: Property from a collection based
in Mumbai.

Throughout his long, illustrious career, Husain
experimented with a vast array of mediums. This
was fitting as he first began his artistic endeavours
creating children’s toys and later, painting billboards.
He was equally comfortable with oil paints, pastels,
acrylic paints, watercolours, ink and mixed media.
He was known for using base mediums ranging from
smaller works on paper and canvases to large scale
works on walls. He often depicted the same visual
imagery through the varied mediums at his disposal,
revisiting his recurring motifs time and again. This
allowed him to play with the scale and scope of his
works. His experimentation with materials also led
him to create exemplary works in wood, leather and
fabric such as the presented lot.