MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN | UNTITLED (PORTAIT OF GUN)

Auction Closed

September 29, 03:32 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ITALY

MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN

1913 - 2011

UNTITLED (PORTAIT OF GUN)

Marker on paper laid on metal

Inscribed in Devanagari upper left

69.5 x 51 cm. (27 ⅜ x 20 in.)

Executed circa 1974

Commissioned by Mario Pellegrino, the former general manager of Atlas Copco, Bombay

Acquired from the above by a relative of Mario Pellegrino in Italy in 1999

This is a portrait of Gun, Mario Pellegrino's wife.