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M.F. Husain was an Indian painter best known for his brightly colored works depicting horses, urban landscapes, the Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit, and nude Hindu goddesses. Employing a style based in Cubism, his irreverent subject matter pushed the limits of censorship in India.
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View all 79 artworks. M.F. Husain lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of Indian-Qatari Cubism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Indian, Qatari
- September 17, 1915
- Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India
- June 9, 2011
From Eye For Art Houston, Maqbool Fida Husain, untitled (1960-1965), Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 30 in
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Jun 9, 2011 · Maqbool Fida Husain is India’s most distinguished and admired artist. This site is an online resource for Maqbool Fida Husain’s biography, artwork, paintings, articles, awards, videos and books.
In the 1960s, he had solo shows in Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome, Baghdad, Kabul, New York, and Ghent. His first exhibition in the United States was in India House, New York in 1964. He received special recognition in major international biennials, including Tokyo, Berlin, and Sao Paolo.
Jun 9, 2011 · Maqbool Fida Husain, better known as M. F. Husain, was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most...
This imposing work was painted in the mid-1960s, at a time when Husain was amalgamating these diverse stimuli and insights in his oeuvre. Here, the artist combines the autobiographical with the mythical, pairing what appears to be a portrait of Dada Abdul with the figures of two bucking stallions.
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