Maqbool Fida Husain (b. 1915)

'The Horse as a multidimensional symbolic motif was itself to interest Husain deeply.  During his travels to China in 1952 he studied the Song dynasty renderings of horses. Later in Europe...he was strongly attracted by Franz Marc's work and by Mario Marini's archaic equestrian sculpture, with its balance between horizontal and vertical lines to achieve a feeling of solitary and monumental anguish. Husain's own use of the horse motif has been, however, even more intuitive and complex...' (Bartholomew and Kapur, 1971, p. 39)