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M. F. Husain

1915 to 2011, Pandharpur, Maharashtra

M. F. Husain, Women dancing before a yellow moon: a framed print of five women with raised arms dancing before a great yellow moon over water, with a boat, two small elephants and a tree hung with cloths.

Maqbool Fida Husain was born in Pandharpur in 1915 and moved to Bombay in the 1930s, where he painted cinema hoardings and designed toys. He attended the Sir J. J. School of Art but did not finish. In 1947 he became a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, formed to move away from academic and revivalist styles.

He is known for bold narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style, on themes including Indian urban and rural life, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. His first solo exhibition was held in Zurich in 1952, and he was invited to the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. He received the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, and won the Golden Bear for his film Through the Eyes of a Painter. He died in London in 2011.

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M. F. Husain, Women dancing before a yellow moon: a framed print of five women with raised arms dancing before a great yellow moon over water, with a boat, two small elephants and a tree hung with cloths.

M. F. Husain (1915 to 2011)

Women dancing before a yellow moon

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Who is M. F. Husain?

Maqbool Fida Husain was born in Pandharpur in 1915 and moved to Bombay in the 1930s, where he painted cinema hoardings and designed toys. He attended the Sir J. J. School of Art but did not finish. In 1947 he became a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, formed to move away from academic and revivalist styles. He is known for bold narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style, on themes including Indian urban and rural life, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. His first solo exhibition was held in Zurich in 1952, and he was invited to the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. He received the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, and won the Golden Bear for his film Through the Eyes of a Painter. He died in London in 2011.

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Prakash Bal Joshi, Cobalt currents, a gold seam, 2024: a landscape-format abstract in cobalt, ultramarine and pale blue, with diagonal sweeps of the brush and two seams of gold running from lower left to upper right.

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Cobalt currents, a gold seam

Prakash Bal Joshi. A canvas of moving blue: broad diagonal strokes in cobalt, ultramarine and pale sky-blue, scraped and dragged so the surface looks like water under wind, or silk folded o.

Chandra Morkonda, Four elephants and the green tree: a landscape-format painting of a great green tree with a gold trunk, four outlined elephants on a golden ground, a pink lotus and a second tree in pink and orange.

Landscape, nature & trees

Four elephants and the green tree

Chandra Morkonda. A great tree with rounded green crowns, each leaf veined in orange and gold, stands on a golden trunk at the left, over a ground of patterned triangles in orange and saff.

Two stylised bulls face each other on a brown ground, their bodies filled with tiny scenes of Hindu deities, with gold and orange bands on horns, necks and legs.

Devotional & narrative

Two bulls carrying the gods

Vivek Kumavat. Two stylised bulls meet face to face on a warm brown ground, set against a dark block pattern.

Prakash Bal Joshi, Crimson rain on a lit field, 2015: a tall abstract in crimson, rose and pale pink, with long vertical drips running down over a loose grid of lighter panels.

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Crimson rain on a lit field

Prakash Bal Joshi. A tall canvas worked almost entirely in one colour, from deep crimson to the palest rose, with the white ground left to show through in a few lit panels near the top.

All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones