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PROPERTY FROM AN EMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION,
NEW DELHI
60
M F HUSAIN
(1913 ‒ 2011)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Husain 30 I 005’ (lower right)
2005
Oil on canvas
36.5 x 50.5 in (92.9 x 128.3 cm)
Rs 70,00,000 ‒ 90,00,000
$ 104,480 ‒ 134,330
PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist
Women, as subjects, were a dominant theme in Husain’s art.
The plasticity of Indian stone sculptures as well as aspects
of Jain miniature paintings were incorporated into his
fundamental approach to the female form. Husain travelled
extensively across India between 1948 and 1955, where “his
exposure, in rapid succession, to Mathura sculpture and Jain
and Basohli painting... had a decisive impact on the formal
aspect of his work.” (Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S Kapur,
Husain
,
New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc., 1972, pp. 36, 38)
The strength and power of the female
shakti
is seen in the
trio of women who are the subjects of the present lot.
A sculpture of a female figure
on the façade of a temple
at the Khajuraho Group of
Monuments in Chhatarpur,
Madhya Pradesh. Husain was
influenced by traditional Indian
sculpture and incorporated
the form in his own figurative
works.
Source: Abhishek Singh, via Flickr