M. F. Husain worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists M. F. Husain as Indian artist (1915–2011).
M. F. Husain was born at Pandharpur in 1915. His recorded nationality is Qatar. He trained at Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as painter, film director and politician.
His best-known work is Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Qatar shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
M. F. Husain died in 2011, aged 96. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities
