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M. F. Husain
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17 Sept 1915
† 09 Jun 2011
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Biography
Maqbool Fida Husain was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after The Partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in serie...
Also Known As
Maqbool Fida Husain, M. F. Hussain
