23rd Nov, 2021 14:00

19th & 20th Century Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture

 
  Lot 43
 

MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (INDIAN 1913-2011)

Property from a Private Collection

MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (INDIAN 1913-2011)

Horses
signed Husain (lower left)
watercolour
73.3 x 50.5 cm (28 7/8 x 19 7/8 in)
Executed in 2003

PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2014

The present work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist's son Shafat Husain, dated 2014.

'Like his bulls, spiders and lamps on women's thighs, boastful snakes and blackly passionate suns, Husain's horses are subterranean creatures. Their nature is not intellectualized; it is rendered as sensation or as abstract movement, with a capacity to stir up vague premonitions and passions, in a mixture of ritualistic fear and exultant anguish.' (R. Bartholomew and S. Kapur, Husain, New York, 1972, p. 42)

Sold for £5,500

Includes Buyer's Premium


 

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