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From Wikipedia - Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) commonly known as MF Husain, was an Indian painter and Film Director. Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—usually treated in series—include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. One of the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artists of the 20th century, he also received recognition as a printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker.
 
The Late M.F. Husain, Already an Icon of Indian Art, Becomes a Market Darling
 by Reena Jana, Art+Auction, Published: December 11, 2012
Over the course of Maqbool Fida Husain’s more than five-decade career, the prolific artist gained international renown for his skill at blending a bold modernism with historical subject matter and Indian iconography. At the time of his death at age 95 in June 2011, he was celebrated not only as an artist who continued to work at the peak of his powers into his 80s, but also as a glamorous man who lived his long life to the fullest. Most often, he was pictured with his signature snowy white beard and hair, dressed in elegant yet laid-back clothes, tinted glasses perched on his aquiline nose, and a deeply satisfied grin on his face.
 
Passions run high even after M.F. Husain's death
Even as intellectuals, celebrities and art lovers continue to mourn his death, unidentified men in Allahabad destroy the sand sculpture created by an artist to pay tribute to the Picasso of India
By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Published: 17:29 June 12, 2011
 
Tribute: M.F. Husain took Indian art to global arena
Fans in India pay tribute to the departed legend
By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Published: 00:00 June 10, 2011
 
Courtesy: Mail Today
 Lifetime award for Husain from UK Indians
 Archana, New Delhi, March 27, 2010
 The Speaker of the UK's House of Commons, John Bercow, had an extraordinary guest in his ornate chamber on Wednesday evening. The guest was the self-exiled master of modern Indian art, M.F. Husain, and the Speaker presented him with a lifetime achievement award on behalf of the UK's Indian community.
True colours revealed: Husain can't hate India
Painter refuses to read much into antics of those who can't understand art
By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Published: 00:00 March 13, 2010

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