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M F Husain
(1915 - 2011)

Untitled



The latter half of the 1950s was a period of great accomplishment in Husain's career. He had exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1954, and subsequently in Zurich, Prague, Frankfurt and Rome. In 1959, he was presented with the International Biennale award in Tokyo. His personal life, too, was transformed by Marie Zurkova, a linguist with whom he shared a symbiotic relationship based largely on a shared interest in art, religion and philosophy....



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  Lot 63 of 87  

EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
8 SEPTEMBER 2016

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ARTWORK DETAILS

M F Husain
Untitled

Signed and dated 'Husain 60' (lower right)
1960
Oil on canvas
40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, New York
Private Family Collection, Delhi

EXHIBITED:
Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelly and Donald Rubin, Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, 15 March - 15 May 2011

PUBLISHED:
R Brown, Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelly and Donald Rubin, Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, 2010, p. 101 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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