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"Art has to evolve from your very being, like my horses... I see them as ageless and immortal." - M F HUSAIN

Husain references the terracotta folk traditions of Bankura and cave art in the present lot. "I have not seen these wild animals in the jungle. I have seen them imprisoned in stone on the walls of Khajuraho, Konark, Mahabalipuram - the temples of medieval India." (K Bikram Singh, Maqbool Fida Husain, New Delhi:... "Art has to evolve from your very being, like my horses... I see them as ageless and immortal." - M F HUSAIN

Husain references the terracotta folk traditions of Bankura and cave art in the present lot. "I have not seen these wild animals in the jungle. I have seen them imprisoned in stone on the walls of Khajuraho, Konark, Mahabalipuram - the temples of medieval India." (K Bikram Singh, Maqbool Fida Husain, New Delhi: Rahul & Art, 2008, p. 169) A single, twisting, dynamic horse dominates the canvas with its terracotta and blue body contained within generously used black colour. Set against a textured background suggesting stone, a band across the top has smaller images in similar colours. Husain's horses are drawn from a wide range of encounters with the animal since his early childhood experiences in Indore and later travels to China in 1952. He explored the many moods and nuances of these majestic animals throughout his career. "The horses 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 colour 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 is transformed in the activity of paint." (Ebrahim Alkazi, M F Husain: The Modern Artist and Tradition, New Delhi: Art Heritage, 1978, p. 3)

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