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Property from an Important Private Collection

Maqbool Fida Husain

Mithuna Crimson

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Maqbool Fida Husain

1913 - 2011

Mithuna Crimson


Oil on canvas

Signed 'Husain' and signed in Devanagari and Urdu lower right. Further inscribed 'MITHUNA CRIMSON' on reverse and 'MITHUNA / CRIMSON / 42" x 75"' on the stretcher

107 x 191.5 cm. (42 ⅛ x 75 ⅜ in.)

Collection of Chester and Davida Herwitz

Sotheby’s New York, Contemporary Indian Paintings from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 5 December 2000, lot 76

Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Paintings by Husain, 15 November - 15 December 1974

S. Bean, Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, p. 67