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Property from the Collection of Navin Kumar

Maqbool Fida Husain

Second Act

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March 26, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

2,800,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Navin Kumar

Maqbool Fida Husain

1913 - 2011

Second Act


Oil on canvas laid on board

Signed 'Husain' lower right and further inscribed 'B - 55 SECOND ACT / ARTIST. / M.F. HUSAIN / SHIPPED FROM / AIR FRGHT. / 6/79 / SHAMSHAD / J-20, JUNGPURA EXTN. / NEW DELHI - 110016 / 48" X 75" / "SECOND ACT"' on reverse

48 x 74 ⅞ in. (121.9 x 190.2 cm.)

Painted in 1958

The Artist

Collection of Chester and Davida Herwitz

Acquired from the above, 2002

New Delhi, Kumar Gallery, 1958

London, Commonwealth Institute of Arts, Indian Painting Now, 8 January - 7 February 1965

Traveled to Newcastle Upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 20 February - 13 March 1965; Kilmarnock, Dick Institute, 20 March - 10 April 1965; Darlington, Art Gallery, 17 April - 8 May 1965; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, 15 May - 5 June 1965; Aberdeen, Art Gallery, 12 June - 3 July 1965; Huddersfield, Art Gallery, 10 - 31 July 1965

New Delhi, Triveni Kala Sangam, Shridharani Gallery, circa 1965

New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, Art Heritage Gallery, M.F. Husain: The Modern Artist & Tradition, 1978

Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, India: Myth and Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian Art, 27 June - 8 August 1982


Film


S.P. Chowdhury, A Painter of Our Time: Husain, Films Division of India, New Delhi, 1976

W.G. Archer, Indian Painting Now, exhibition catalogue, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1965, pl. 54

G. Kapur, Husain, Sadanga Publications, Bombay, 1968, illustration p. 13

R. Bartholomew and S. Kapur, Husain, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York, 1971, pl. 59

G. Kapur, 'Maqbool Fida Husain,' Contemporary Indian Artists, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1978, pl. 46

E. Alkazi, M.F. Husain: The Modern Artist & Tradition, exhibition catalogue, Art Heritage, New Delhi, 1978, illustration p. 14

D. Elliott and E. Alkazi (eds.), India: Myth & Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian Art, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982, unpaginated [enlisted]