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M F HUSAIN
(1913 ‒ 2011)
Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12
Signed and dated ‘Husain 72 1/2’ and
signed again in Devnagari (lower left and upper right)
1972
Oil on canvas
74 x 107.75 in (188 x 273.5 cm)
Rs 12,00,00,000 ‒ 18,00,00,000
$ 1,714,290 ‒ 2,571,430
PROVENANCE
Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, 5 December 2000, lot 127
Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan
Christie’s, New York, 20 March 2008, lot 57
EXHIBITED
Paris: Espace Cardin, 1972
Moscow: Oriental Museum, 1972
M F Husain: The Modern Artist and Tradition
, presented
by Art Heritage at New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1978 ‒ 79
India: Myth & Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art
, Oxford: Museum
of Modern Art, 27 June ‒ 8 August 1982
PUBLISHED
Ebrahim Alkazi,
M F Husain: The Modern Artist and Tradition
, New Delhi:
Art Heritage, 1978, pl. 33 (illustrated)
David Elliott and Ebrahim Alkazi eds.,
India: Myth & Reality, Aspects
of Modern Indian Art
, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1982, p. 6 (illustrated)
Dr Daniel Herwitz,
Husain
, Bombay: Tata Steel Publications,
1998, p. 103 (illustrated)
Parul Dave‒Mukherji ed.,
Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art ‒ The Making
of a Modern Indian Art World
, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing and
New Delhi: Art Heritage Gallery, 2016, p. 66 (illustrated)
"...The Mahabharata discloses a rich civilisation and highly evolved
society which, though of an older world, strangely resembles the India
of our time..."
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