M F Husain
(1915 - 2011)
Untitled
"Husain's painted horses do not just bear majestic stateliness and striking beauty but also come alive in every mood, situation and form. Their forceful movement conveys so much that it carries us away with it" (Rashda Siddiqui, In Conversation with Husain Paintings, Books Today, New Delhi, 2001, p. 112). Since the early 1950s, when he first painted the animal, the image of the horse has remained a powerful motif in M.F. Husain's...
"Husain's painted horses do not just bear majestic stateliness and striking beauty but also come alive in every mood, situation and form. Their forceful movement conveys so much that it carries us away with it" (Rashda Siddiqui, In Conversation with Husain Paintings, Books Today, New Delhi, 2001, p. 112). Since the early 1950s, when he first painted the animal, the image of the horse has remained a powerful motif in M.F. Husain's expansive oeuvre. His various encounters with the figure of the horse extend across several decades, beginning as early as his childhood in Indore, spent in the company of his grandfather's friend, Acchan Mian the farrier, and extending to the work of traditional Chinese artists like Xu Beihong and contemporary European artists including Franz Marc and Marino Marini that he encountered on his travels across the world. As in his other equine portraits, in this 1967 painting of two horses and a rider, the animals "…are rampant or galloping; the manes, the fury, the working buttocks, the prancing legs, and the strong neighing heads with dilated nostrils are blocks of color which are vivid or tactile or are propelled in their significant progression by strokes of the brush or sweeps of the palette knife. The activity depicted has been transformed into the action of paint…[They] are subterranean creatures. Their nature is not intellectualized; it is rendered as sensation or as abstract movement, with a capacity to stir up vague premonitions and passions in a mixture of ritualistic fear and exultant anguish" (Richard Bartholomew and Shiv Kapur, Husain, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1972, p. 20, 43).
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SUMMER ART AUCTION 2012
19-20 JUNE 2012
Estimate
Rs 80,00,000 - 1,00,00,000
$148,150 - 185,190
Winning Bid
Rs 83,04,120
$153,780
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
ARTWORK DETAILS
M F Husain
Untitled
Signed in Devnagari (upper left) and signed and dated in English (verso)
1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 48 in (76.2 x 121.9 cm)
PROVENANCE: From a Private Indian Collection Acquired from Kala Yatra, Bangalore
Category: Painting
Style: Figurative
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'