Maqbool Fida Husain passed away in London, and he brings to an end an epic chapter in the nuances of contemporary art and its history. ... M.F. Husain’s epic work “Mahabharata: ...

Maqbool Fida Husain(illustration Bishwajith Debnath) ... His themes ranged from Ramayana and Mahabharata, divine figures, events from India’s ancient heritage, ...

Maqbool Fida Husain (b. 1915), a nonagenarian Indian seminal artist with an iconic status is ironically a shining star in exile. The paradox is, that as an artist he passionately conveyed Indian ...

Husain's Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12, fetched $1.6 million in 2008, setting a world record at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sale.

Maqbool Fida Husain was born on Sept. 17, 1915, in Pandharpur, in the central Indian state of Maharashtra, and grew up in Indore in Madhya Pradesh. His father was an accountant.

In this file photograph taken on 26 May, 2011, employees hold a painting entitled ‘The Sixth Seal’ by Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Husain at Sotheby’s auction house in central London.

Maqbool Fida Husain, nicknamed MF, is one of India’s most treasured artists. He has been called the "Picasso of India". In 1996 controversy arose over paintings originally painted in the 1970s which ...