Untitled (Two Horses)

Details

MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1913-2011)
Untitled (Two Horses)
signed 'Husain' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 1⁄8 x 36 in. (61.3 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted circa mid 1980s

Provenance

Private Collection, India
Gifted by the above, 1992
Thence by descent to the present owner

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Lot Essay

My horses like lightning, cut across many horizons. Seldom their hooves are shown. They hop around the spaces. From the battlefield of ‘Karbala’ to Bankura terracotta, from the Chinese Tse pei Hung horse to St. Marco horse, from ornate armoured ‘Duldul’ to challenging white of ‘Ashwamedh’ [...] the cavalcade of my horses is multidimensional.
- M.F. Husain, 1987

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