Lot 66
  • 66

Maqbool Fida Husain (b. 1915)

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Maqbool Fida Husain
  • Green Woman
  • Signed 'Husain' upper left and signed and inscribed ' "Green Woman"/ Husain' on reverse
  • Oil on canvas
  • 52 by 23 1/4 in. (132.3 by 58.7 cm.)

Catalogue Note

A central motif of Husian's work is Woman, and the artist treats her as an embodiment  of strength and endurance. As Dalmia states, 'Husain's women are monumental in their fortitude and yet humble and ordinary in a duality that Husain expresses effortlessly in his early works.’ (Yashodhara Dalmia, The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives, 2001, p. 101).