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Lot 42
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Maqbool Fida Husain

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Maqbool Fida Husain
  • STREET IN JAIPUR

  • Signed and inscribed 'M.F.HUSAIN/ "STREET IN JAIPUR"/ - BOMBAY' on reverse

  • Oil on canvas
  • 94 by 50.2 cm. (37 by 19¾ in.)

Provenance

Formerly in in the colection of Von der Gaag, Consul General to the Netherlands in Delhi in the 1960's.

Condition

Overall very good condition, canvas would benefit from minimal cleaning, colours of original slightly deeper than catalogue illustration, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

The main influences on Husain's early works are the rural Indian landscape, the classical arts of India and the contemporary culture of urban India.  Husain's paintings throughout his career reflect an ongoing dialogue between the artist and these influences.  The strength of Husain's vision is that he can blend such divergent stimuli into coherent and immediately tangible forms that are neither cerebral nor superficial.

Between 1960 and 1965 Husain created several paintings of Rajasthan, the region was also the inspiration for his first film Through the Eyes of a Painter.  'It'll be shot in three cities of Rajasthan. It'll be about the bathing nymphets of Bundi lake, the brave Rajput warriors of Chittor Fort, the golden by lanes and the caravanserais of Jaisalmer,' (M F Husain with Khalid Mohammed, Where art thou, Mumbai 2002, p. 104.) The current work from a similar period is also clearly influenced by the landscape forts and walled cities of Rajasthan.    

 

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