
Property from the Collection of Navin Kumar
Second Act
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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]
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