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	Since Husain cannot return to India due to the preposterous law suits filed against him — India’s loss is others gain. Artists of Husain’s calibre are born once in a few centuries. One of Allama Iqbal’s famous couplets aptly describes this great maestro “Hazaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai — Bari musquil se hota hai chaman men deedawar paida.” (A thousand years Narcissus cries over its lacking / With difficulty is born one to behold)		Since Husain cannot return to India due to the preposterous law suits filed against him — India’s loss is others gain. Artists of Husain’s calibre are born once in a few centuries. One of Allama Iqbal’s famous couplets aptly describes this great maestro “Hazaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai — Bari musquil se hota hai chaman men deedawar paida.” (A thousand years Narcissus cries over its lacking / With difficulty is born one to behold)
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		+	=His art=
		+	==Horses==
		+	[https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-culture/mf-husain-horse-meaning-inspiration-religion-critique-10138221/ Vandana Kalra, July 20, 2025: ''The Indian Express'']
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		+	[[File: ‘Untitled (Gandhi and Nehru)’ by MF Husain. (Photo courtesy DAG).jpg\|‘Untitled (Gandhi and Nehru)’ by MF Husain. (Photo courtesy DAG) <br/> From: [https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-culture/mf-husain-horse-meaning-inspiration-religion-critique-10138221/ Vandana Kalra, July 20, 2025: ''The Indian Express'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India’s most recognised and revered artists, is known for his bold and striking depictions that drew inspiration from a multitude of sources, from Indian mythology and folk traditions to Western art movements.
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		+	The motif most associated with Husain is his horses. These majestic creatures feature across Husain’s oeuvre: he was painting horses in the 1930s, while still making a living as a cinema-hoarding maker in Bombay (now Mumbai), as he was in the late 2000s, while in a self-imposed exile from India.
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		+	''' Diverse influences '''
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		+	Growing up in Indore, where his father was a timekeeper in a textile mill, Husain often shared fond memories of playing with clay horses as a child and riding carousel horses at village fairs.
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		+	A friend of his grandfather, who worked as a farrier (someone who takes care of horses’ hooves), gave young Husain close access to the agile animals, allowing the budding artist to study their anatomy in detail. The artist was also inspired by the papier-mâché replicas of Duldul — Prophet Muhammad’s white mule — that were paraded in the streets during Muharram processions.
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		+	“My horses, like lightning, cut across many horizons. Seldom their hooves shown. They hop around the spaces. From the battlefield of ‘Karbala’ to Bankura terracotta, from the Chinese Tse pei Hung horse to St. Marco horse, from ornate armoured ‘Duldul’ to challenging white of ‘Ashwamedh’ […] the cavalcade of my horses is multidimensional,” Husain had said in 1987, according to a note on the Christie’s website.
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		+	While the artist’s dynamic lines were guided by the works of German expressionist Franz Marc and Italian sculptor Marino Marini, the fragmented, angular forms reflected a cubist vocabulary.
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		+	''' Diverse depictions '''
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		+	Rarely static, Husain’s horses are powerful creatures that exude immense grace.
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		+	“The horse, to [Husain], represented masculinity, and he painted them singly, in pairs, or in herds. Strangely, he never painted their hooves. His horses were depicted in motion, capturing their elegance and speed,” Ashish Anand, managing director and CEO of DAG art gallery, told The Indian Express.
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		+	Passage of Time, painted in neutral shades in 1954, was one of Husain’s early major canvases featuring the horse as the central figure. He painted several untitled works depicting horses in the 1950s and 1960s, before creating Duldul in 1967 with thick impasto and fractured lines.
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		+	“Sometimes he also represented them alongside female nudes, as in his wonderful painting of the Three Graces (1990). One of his largest paintings titled Lightning (1975), is entirely made up of galloping horses. Later, his Raj series (1980s) showed maharajas and viceroys playing polo mounted on horses,” Anand said.
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		+	In 1991, Husain depicted Zuljanah, Imam Husayn’s loyal horse, celebrated for his valour in the Battle of Karbala. Karbala Horse (Zuljinah) shows the dark equine striding across the River Euphrates.
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		+	Painted in the late 1990s, Seven Horses alluded to the Hindu mythological depiction of Surya, the sun god, whose chariot is pulled by seven horses.
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		+	Husain’s very last series, meant to be an ode to diversity and pluralism in India, also featured horses. Commissioned in 2008 by Usha Mittal, the wife of steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, the series remained incomplete due to the artist’s demise in 2011.
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		+	''' Appreciated & critiqued '''
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		+	Globally recognised as his signature motif, Husain’s horses have drawn both criticism and acclaim over the years. Among others, author Mulk Raj Anand reportedly described them as “bourgeois subject matter”. Some art critics also feel that Husain repeated the motif rather too often, particularly after the 1970s.
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		+	For Husain, however, horses remained an inherent part of his artistic vocabulary and symbolism, one he never shied away from, regardless of how critics felt.
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		+	“Horses have always been a part of Indian art but it was Husain saab who made them a specific subject all his own. The only other artist who painted horses with as much zeal throughout his career was Sunil Das, but he depicted them realistically while Husain’s work was expressionistic,” Anand said. “Representing horses’ energy and dynamism, Husain’s paintings, often massive, command attention in any room where they are displayed.”
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 Today anyone related to the arts anywhere, will feel a deep sense of loss. Two years ago, when my wife and I were checking out of a hotel in Mayfair, London, we bumped into a common friend Kalpana Shah of Tao Art Gallery. She told us Husain was also staying in the same hotel. As always his energy was infectious when he told us that he had been staying there for a while and had turned his suite into his studio for the rest of the summer. The ease with which he had transformed the space into a lush creative patch made us rethink what we do every day in our working lives. He did not appear like a person in exile.
 Here was a man who had taken full ownership of the place and time that he inhabited; a man who had learned how to fully seize the moment.
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  Ashish Anand, CEO of DAG, which i s celebrating Husain’s legacy with a retrospective in its Mumbai space, says this i s a huge moment for both Husain and Indian art. “It’s not only double that of the previous record but more than a 400% jump from Husain’s previous record of $3.1m (Rs 27 cr) set last year,” says Anand, who is planning a Husain showing at the Dubai art fair.
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 The diamantaire’s flashy lifestyle was evident in the objects on the block. Among the luxury collectibles was Modi’s Rolls-Royce Ghost which sold for Rs 1.68 crore. Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani said “The frenzied bidding on watches, handbags and cars – most of which sold in multiples of their estimates – underscores the thriving market for luxury collectibles,”. TNN
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+[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=21_03_2025_101_011_cap_TOI Neelam Raaj, March 21, 2025: ''The Times of India'']
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	Today anyone related to the arts anywhere, will feel a deep sense of loss. Two years ago, when my wife and I were checking out of a hotel in Mayfair, London, we bumped into a common friend Kalpana Shah of Tao Art Gallery. She told us Husain was also staying in the same hotel. As always his energy was infectious when he told us that he had been staying there for a while and had turned his suite into his studio for the rest of the summer. The ease with which he had transformed the space into a lush creative patch made us rethink what we do every day in our working lives. He did not appear like a person in exile.		Today anyone related to the arts anywhere, will feel a deep sense of loss. Two years ago, when my wife and I were checking out of a hotel in Mayfair, London, we bumped into a common friend Kalpana Shah of Tao Art Gallery. She told us Husain was also staying in the same hotel. As always his energy was infectious when he told us that he had been staying there for a while and had turned his suite into his studio for the rest of the summer. The ease with which he had transformed the space into a lush creative patch made us rethink what we do every day in our working lives. He did not appear like a person in exile.
	Here was a man who had taken full ownership of the place and time that he inhabited; a man who had learned how to fully seize the moment.		Here was a man who had taken full ownership of the place and time that he inhabited; a man who had learned how to fully seize the moment.
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		+	=Prices fetched by Husain’s paintings=
		+	==2020: Rs 13.4 crore for Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12’ ==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F03%2F06&entity=Ar02116&sk=C7A28114&mode=text NiMo’s Husain sets world record, March 6, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: The Husain painting titled ‘Battle of Ganga and Jamuna- Mahabharata 12’ was sold for Rs 13.4 cr, creating a new auction record for the artist.jpg\|The Husain painting titled ‘Battle of Ganga and Jamuna- Mahabharata 12’ was sold for Rs 13.4 cr, creating a new auction record for the artist <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F03%2F06&entity=Ar02116&sk=C7A28114&mode=text NiMo’s Husain sets world record, March 6, 2020: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	'' Sale Of Fugitive’s Assets Raises ₹53.45Cr For ED ''
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		+	Jewellery tycoon Nirav Modi might be disgraced but the taint doesn’t seem to extend his art. In a two-day auction, collectors vied to snap up his seized assets which included a record-breaking M F Husain painting, Hermes handbags, a Rolls Royce Ghost and diamond-studded watches.
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		+	The Husain painting titled ‘Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12’ was the centerpiece of the live auction conducted by Saffronart on behalf of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday. And it certainly lived up to its top billing, selling for Rs 13.4 crore and creating a new auction record for the artist. Another painting by Amrita Sher-Gil sold for even higher at Rs 15.6 crore.
		+	The live auction was preceded by an online auction. Both were described by Saffronart as “white glove sales”. In auction lingo, this means that all the items were sold. Not just sold, the two auctions raised a total of Rs 53.45 crore ($7.65 million) for the ED, crossing the pre-auction estimate of Rs 41 crore.
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		+	The diamantaire’s flashy lifestyle was evident in the objects on the block. Among the luxury collectibles was Modi’s Rolls-Royce Ghost which sold for Rs 1.68 crore. Saffronart CEO Dinesh Vazirani said “The frenzied bidding on watches, handbags and cars – most of which sold in multiples of their estimates – underscores the thriving market for luxury collectibles,”. TNN
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	Since Husain cannot return to India due to the preposterous law suits filed against him — India’s loss is others gain. Artists of Husain’s calibre are born once in a few centuries. One of Allama Iqbal’s famous couplets aptly describes this great maestro “Hazaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai — Bari musquil se hota hai chaman men deedawar paida.” (A thousand years Narcissus cries over its lacking / With difficulty is born one to behold)		Since Husain cannot return to India due to the preposterous law suits filed against him — India’s loss is others gain. Artists of Husain’s calibre are born once in a few centuries. One of Allama Iqbal’s famous couplets aptly describes this great maestro “Hazaron saal nargis apni benoori pe roti hai — Bari musquil se hota hai chaman men deedawar paida.” (A thousand years Narcissus cries over its lacking / With difficulty is born one to behold)
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		+	=Contribution=
		+	[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jitish-kallat-on-mf-husain-paintings-art-work-exhibitions/1/141156.html ''India Today''], June 11, 2011
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		+	"His art was always made in an open studio, watched by thousands"
		+	M F Husain's death in exile is a tragic loss to India: Jitish Kallat
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		+	'''Jitish Kallat , The writer is an Indian artist who works in varied media'''
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		+	''As told to Olina Banerji''
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		+	The art scene that we have inherited is primarily because of the space M.F. Husain has carved for art for three decades prior to when my generation started exhibiting its work. He was responsible for uploading in the public consciousness the figure of the artist in post-Independence India. His death is a tragic loss; one thinks about the fact that he made art practically everyday and everywhere he went. It makes me think that were he healthy and alive today he would probably be holding a brush at this time. Equally one feels a deep sadness and anger when one thinks of the fact that he had to pass away in a foreign land and that his last years were shaped by the state's indifference in the face of many death threats he received from fundamentalist factions.
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		+	He was a man who was awarded a Padma Shri, a Padma Bhushan and a Padma Vibushan and yet in his last years the Indian state chose to honour him by exiling him; with his passing away we can't reverse the circumstances but there is much to introspect here. What does the last years of Husain's living in exile and his giving up the Indian citizenship mean for the nation and its position vis-a-vis culture? One also thinks about how rooted Husain's work was within the national context and how that umbilical cord was forcibly snapped. Yet Husain never allowed the tragedy to hold him back. He handled it with exemplary equanimity and an insightful sense of humsour. When he took up another nationality it almost seemed like he had simply returned the ball the Indian state had served him. His resolve to secure all his energy to carry on making art and not let these awful incidents overpower him is a lesson for all creative people.
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		+	His was a visual language that embraced the formal possibilities of European modernism and morphed it with the texture and essence of an emergent India immediately after Independence. Other artists of his generation shared some of these preoccupations but his art was always practised performatively, always involving an audience of thousands. It was made in an open studio, to be watched by the entire nation and the world. Now this is not how art is made normally and most artists would relish a certain solitude, to secure one's reflexivity, but most yardsticks of evaluating artistic practice seem inadequate to compute Husain's creative aspirations. He needs to be looked at as a legendary cultural figure rather than as a visual artist of genius.
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		+	Today anyone related to the arts anywhere, will feel a deep sense of loss. Two years ago, when my wife and I were checking out of a hotel in Mayfair, London, we bumped into a common friend Kalpana Shah of Tao Art Gallery. She told us Husain was also staying in the same hotel. As always his energy was infectious when he told us that he had been staying there for a while and had turned his suite into his studio for the rest of the summer. The ease with which he had transformed the space into a lush creative patch made us rethink what we do every day in our working lives. He did not appear like a person in exile.
		+	Here was a man who had taken full ownership of the place and time that he inhabited; a man who had learned how to fully seize the moment.

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