Maqbool Fida Husain
BORN DIED EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED POSTHUMOUS EXHIBITIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Maqbool Fida Husain was born in 1913 in Pandharpur, Maharashtra. A self-taught artist, he arrived in Mumbai in 1937 determined to become a painter. In 1948, he was invited by F N Souza to join the Group of Progressive Artists. Husain began his career by painting billboards for feature films and designing furniture and toys to earn a living. However, when he began painting as an art form, he returned again and again to his roots and to themes that blended folk, tribal, and mythological art to create lively and vibrantly contemporary art forms. His rise as a public figure had as much to do with his style and presentation as with his themes. He represented icons of Indian culture through the ages, seeking to capture the quintessence of his subjects, such as Mother Teresa, and characters from epics such as the Mahabharata. Husain's name has become almost synonymous with modern Indian art, as no artist has popularized Indian art, within the country or internationally, as Husain has done. His relentless search for his cultural roots and his fearless and open willingness to absorb diverse influences have made M. F. Husain one of the most recognizable figures in modern Indian art. In a career that spanned seven decades, Husain also made feature films, such as Through the Eyes of a Painter in 1967, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Gajagamini in 2000. The Government of India honored him. with the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awards, both prestigious civilian awards. Husain died in London in 2011. Notification - We do not usually display Maqbool Fida Husain's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
17 September 1915 Pandharpur, Maharashtra
June 9, 2011 London, England
Self-taught Artist
2017 Yatra The Rooted Nomad, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2015 Paintings and drawings from a private collection, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2015 Selections of Abby Gray and Indian Modernism from the New York University Art Collection, Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York
2014 Immutable Gaze Part I Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2014 Post-Picasso Contemporary Reactions, Picasso Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona
2013 Maqbool, Sovereign Fze, Dubai
2013 Ram Kumar and the Bombay Progressives Form and Figure Part II, Aicon Gallery, New York
2013 Pioneers of Modernism, Sovereign FZE, Dubai
2013 Ideas of the Sublime, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 The Discerning Eye Modern Masters, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2013 The Nude and the Nude The Body in Modern Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 Iconic Processions, Aicon Gallery, New York
Gallery Collection 2012, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 Indian Highway VI, organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 Between 2 Lines, organized by Doha Bank and Blue Mosaic in association with Sothebys at Doha Bank Tower, Doha
2012 Contemporary A selection of modern and contemporary art, presented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2012 Through the Ages, South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism, Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 Crossings Time Unfolded, Part 2, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2012 Basilio Gallery, Bangladesh
2011-12 Presented by ICIA at The Arts Trust, Mumbai
2011-12 Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2011-12 The Body Unleashed, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2011 A Tribute to MF Husain, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2011 The Lotus Path of Indian Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2011 Modern Masters, Aicon Gallery, New York
2011-12 Indian Highway, in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Progressive Starting States to the Present, Aicon Gallery, London
2011 Celebrating Husain, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 POP Progressives on Paper, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 M F Husain 2010 - The world is my canvas, organized by the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Qatar Foundation and as part of the Arab Capital of Culture 2010
2010 M.F. Husain's early masterworks from the 1950s to 1970s, sponsored by the Year of India, the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the David Winton Bell Gallery at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence
2006-07 Epic Paintings of India by M. F. Husain, Herwitz Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2006 Early Masterpieces of the 1950s-70s, Asia House Gallery, London
2005 Print Exhibition, Collectors Paradise Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Husain (Exhibition of Graphic Prints in Honor of M S Subbalakshmi), Lakshana Museum of Fine Arts, Chennai
2004 And not only 88 Husain in oil, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 Husain Graphic 2004, Images and Frames, Mumbai
2003 88 Husains in Oils 003, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Husain Hieroglyph, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 88 Husains in oil paintings 003, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Thief of Baghdad, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 88 Husains in oil paintings 003, Gallery 88, Calcutta
2003 Paris
2002 Husain Paintings and Screen Prints, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda.
2002 M .F Husain, Limited Edition Reproduction and Graphics, Sakshi Gallery in association with Archer Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
2002 Madhuri as Saratchandras Chandramukhi The Eternal Sorceress of Devdas, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 Paintings, murals and drawings, Husain Ki Sarai Collection, New Delhi
1998 Maqbool Fida Husain The Lighthouse of Energy, The Window, Mumbai
1998 Husain Now, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1996 From Sinhasan to Peacock Throne to 21st Century Chair M.F Husain and Jehangir Nagree Furniture Exhibition, organized by The Living Room at Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai
1996 Exhibition of Watercolors and Object-Based Works, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Screening of the film Gaja Gamini, along with an exhibition of lithographs and site-specific works, New Delhi.
1995 Maqbool Fida Husain, Art Today, New Delhi
1995 14 silkscreens on Madhuri Dixit, Surya Gallery, Hyderabad
1995 A visual script for an untitled film on Madhuri, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Tapestry Exhibition, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1994 Oils on canvas, 31st anniversary exhibition, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Let History Cut Across Me Without Me, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1993 Civilization, Violence and Pather Panchali, at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi.
1992 Six days of live painting, Tata Centre, Calcutta
1991 Knight Watch, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1991 Shwetambari, Installation at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1991 Cover, Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), New Delhi
1990 Theater of the Absurd, Installations, New Delhi
1989 Calcutta 300, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1988 Husain, Hunter Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA.
1986 Images of the Raj, Sistas Art Gallery, Bangalore
1983 Story of a Brush, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1982 Street Culture, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1981 Street culture, Artistic Heritage, New Delhi
1981 Les Otages - Mere Theresa, Galerie Jourdan, Montreal, Canada
1980 Mother and child, a tribute to Mother Teresa, Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta
1979 Husain in Malaysia, The Hilton, Kuala Lumpur
1978 Ragmala Paintings, Centaur Hotel, Mumbai
1978 Sufi Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1978 Portrait of an Umbrella, Artistic Heritage, New Delhi
1978 Retrospective, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1975 Maqbool Fida Husain, Sarla Art Centre, Chennai
1974 Commonwealth Art Centre, London, United Kingdom.
1974 Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
1974 Husain Paintings, Worcester Art Museum, USA
1973 Retrospective, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta.
1973 Cardin Space, Paris
1972 Paintings 1971, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1971 Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi
1969 21 Years of Painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1968 Images of Kerala, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1968 Six days to create movements and moods in paintings, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
1967 New York, Poland and Czechoslovakia
1966 Bombay
1966 Hotel Oberoi, New Delhi
1965 Drawings The Arab Image, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai, Calcutta and New Delhi, Cintura Gallery, Baghdad and Kabul
1964 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
1962 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta
1962 Bombay and New Delhi
1961 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta
1961 Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
1961 Palse Gallery, Rome
1961 Tokyo
1960 Palse Gallery, Rome
1960 Kunst Kabinet, Frankfurt
1956 Paleta Gallery, Zurich
1956 Mannes Gallery, Prague
1950 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
2011 Continuum, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010-11 Figure Landscape, Part Two, Aicon Gallery, London
2010 Figure Landscape Part One, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 Who has seen Gandhi? presented by Tangerine Art Space at Raj Bhavan, KynKyny Art Gallery and Tangerine Art Space, Bengaluru
2010 The Modernists, RL Fine Arts, New York
2010 The Progressives & Associates, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 From miniature to modern traditions in transition, Rob Dean Art, London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Symbols and metaphors, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2010 Masters of Maharashtra, collection of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Center for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2009-10 Master Class, The Arts Trust, Mumbai
2009 Bharat Ratna Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009 In Search of the Vernacular, Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 Indian Harvest, presented by Crimson- The Art Resouce, Bangalore at SG Private Banking, Singapore
2009 Long Gone & Living Now, Gallerie Mirchandani and Steinreucke, Mumbai
2009 Kalpana Figurative Art in India, presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
2009 Progressive to Altermodern 62 Years of Indian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2008-09 Signs Taken for Wonders Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London
2008 Frame Figure Field 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Multiple Modernities India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
2008 Freedom 2008 - Sixty Years of Indian Independence, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 Stories, reflections and constructions, Galerie 88, Calcutta
2008 Seri-Prints Exhibition, Studio Vasant, New Delhi
2007 Bombay Gateway, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2007 From the Vault, Aicon Gallery, London and New York
2007 Epic Paintings of India by MF Husain, Peabody Museum Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
2006 Pictorial Glimpses, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Summer Exhibition 2006, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2006 M F Husain Early Masterpieces of the 1950s and 1970s, Asia House, London
2006 The Moderns Revisited, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2006 Shadow Lines, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 Making of Divinity, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Manifestations III, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2005 Contemporary Indian Artists Drishti Vision, Valentine Willie Fine Art (VWFA), Kuala Lumpur
2005 Evoking Rasa in Luminous Visions of Indian Art, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2005 Ashta Nayak Eight Pioneers of Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2005 The Sacred Feminine, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Still life The inscrutable genre, artistic motif, New Delhi
2004 20-20 A Vision Looking Back Looking Forward, Apparao Galleries, Chennai
2004 Reflections, Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai, The Forum, New Delhi, Windsor Manor Hotel, Bangalore, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Jiva Life, Bodhi Art, Singapore
2004 Portrait of a Decade, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Manifestations II, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Concept and Form, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Anniversary Master Strokes, Art Musings, Mumbai
2003 Manifestations I, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at the World Trade Centre, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2002 Art Musings 2002, Art Musings, Mumbai
2002 Colors of India, organized by Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata in Mumbai
2001 Anniversary Return to Eden, Art Musings, Mumbai
2001 Modern Indian Art, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2000 Distillations, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta
2000 Timeless Vision Contemporary Art from the Herwitz Collection, Haggerty Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2000 New works, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin
1998 Reflections, Apollo Apparao Galleries, Mumbai
1998 The Window, Mumbai
1997 Indian Painters Living in France, Alliance Francaise, Pondicherry
1997 The Indian Beast, Apparao Galleries, Chennai
1997 Inaugural exhibition, Art Indus, New Delhi
1997 Tribute to Mother Teresa, Art Indus, New Delhi
1997 Keehn Collection Important Paintings of Post-Independence India, Bose Pacia, New York
1997 Colors of Independence, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1996 Contemporary Indian Paintings Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Part II, Sothebys Auction, New York
1996 Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings One Hundred Years, Sotheby's Auction, London
1995 River of Art, Art Today, New Delhi
1995 Contemporary Indian Paintings Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Part I, Sothebys Auction, New York
1995 Art India Now Important Contemporary Artists, Bose Pacia, New York
1995 Mithuna, 91C Jermyn Street, London
1994 Art Today, New Delhi
1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Reflection and Images, Mumbai
1993 Wounds, Center International of Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta
1991 National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1991 Husain, Husain and Husain, Egypt
1991 Remembering Kali Pundole on her 28th birthday, Mumbai
1991 State of the Art, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1991 Nine Indian Contemporaries, Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), New Delhi
1988 Festival of India, Takoka Municipal Art Museum and Meugro Art Museum, Tokyo
1987 Indian Drawing Today, Mumbai
1986 Indian Art of Tomorrow, The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.
1986 Contemporary Indian Art, Gray Art Gallery, New York
1985-86 Festival of India, Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, New York University, New York
1985-86 Indian Art Today 4 Artists, Washington D.C, USA
1985-86 Contemporary Art in India, Worcester, USA
1985 100 Jahre Indische Malerei, Old Museum, Berlin
1985 Six Indian Painters, Tate Gallery, London
1982 Indische Kunst Heute, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1982 Six Indian painters, London
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, London
1982 Myth and reality of India, aspects of modern Indian art, Oxford, United Kingdom
1982 Modern Indian Paintings, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
1982 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1973 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi
1972 A painter makes a film, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1970 Art Today II, Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta and Shridharni Gallery, New Delhi
1969 Art Today I, New Delhi
1968 Ahmedabad
1967 25 years of paintings seen in Bombay, Mumbai
1966 Commonwealth Art Exhibition, London
1966 Art Now in India, London and Brussels
1964 Indian Paintings Now, London
1962 Asoka Art Gallery, Calcutta
1961 Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
1958 Eight Painters, International Cultural Centre, New Delhi
1951 May Hall, France
1950 Calcutta Group - Progressive Art Group, joint exhibition, Calcutta
1950 Bombay Art Society Hall, Mumbai
1948-56 Group exhibitions with Progressive Art Group
1949 Bombay
2011 Between 2 lines, with Owais Husain at the Indian Embassy, Muscat
2009 Spirit of India, with S H Raza at Kings Road Galleries, London
2011 Ethos V Indian Art through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 Goddess, lion, peasant, priest Modern and contemporary Indian art, from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta
2011 Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Roots in the Air, Branches Below Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 Time Unfolded, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 Celebrations 2011, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Evolve 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Art Dubai 2010, presented by Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Roots, 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2010 Celebration 2010, Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 Armory Show, New York presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008-09 India Moderna, organized by the Institut Valencia dArt Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Valencia, Spain
2008, 09, 10 Indian Highway, a touring exhibition presented in collaboration with the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark
2008-09 Peace Mandala, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2008 Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan
2008 Harvest 2008, organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2007-08 From Everyday To The Imagined Modern Indian Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and Art Museum, Seoul National University, Seoul
2001 Jubilant Gold 50 years of Artists Centre, Artists Centre, Mumbai
1987 Festival of India, Russia
1987 Couer Coups, Halle de Ille, Geneva
1985-86 Bharat Bhavan Biennale, Bhopal
1971 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1959 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1959 Tokyo Biennale, Japan
1955 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1955 Venice Biennale, Italy
1953 Venice Biennale, Italy
2007 Raja Ravi Varma Award, Government of Kerala
2007 Honorary Doctorates, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi
2007 Honorary Doctorates, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
2007 Honoris Causa Doctorates, University of Mysore
2004 Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2003 Honorary Doctorates from Banaras Hindu University (citation needed), Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Calicut and University of Mysore
1997 Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikkar Lifetime Achievement Award
1989 Padma Vibhushan, Government of India
1973 Padma Bhushan, Government of India
1968 National Award for Best Experimental Film Through the Eyes of a Painter, India
1967 He won the Golden Bear for his film Through the Eyes of a Painter, Berlin International Film Festival and acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
1966 Padma Shri, Government of India
1959 International Biennial Prize, Tokyo
1955 Awarded Padmashree, Government of India
1955 First Prize at the National Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1947 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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