Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

196 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III 1973 Retrospective , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Espace Cardin, Paris 1974 Commonwealth Art Centre, London Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow 1974 Paintings by Husain , Worcester Art Museum, U.S.A. 1975 Maqbool Fida Husain , Sarala Art Centre, Madras (2–14 February) 1978 Sufi paintings , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Ragmala paintings , Centaur Hotel Lawns, Bombay Portrait of an Umbrella , Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi Retrospective , Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (Organised by Art Heritage) 1979 Husain in Malaysia , The Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Organised by Pundole Art Gallery) 1980 Mother and Child: A Tribute to Mother Teresa , Calcutta Art Gallery 1981 Les Otages – Mere Theresa , Galerie Jourdan, Montreal Culture of the Streets , Art Heritage, New Delhi 1982 Culture of the Streets , Pundole Art Gallery (6–24 April) 1983 Story of a Brush , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Images of the Raj , Sista’s Art Gallery, Kala Yatra, Bangalore (3–29 November) 1988 Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee 1990 Installations, Theatre of the Absurd , New Delhi 1991 Installations, Shwetambari (white is super abundance) , Bombay 1992 Six days of live painting at Tata Centre, Calcutta 1993 Let History Cut Across Me Without Me , National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, sponsored by the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1995 Maqbool Fida Husain , Art Today, New Delhi 1996 From Sinhasan to Peacock Throne to the Chair of the 21st Century , exhibition of furniture, Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay (Organised by The Living Room) (October) 1998 Maqbool Fida Husain: The Beacon of Energy , The Window, Mumbai (26 November–8 December) 2002 Madhuri as Saratchandra’s Chandramukhi: The eternal enchantress of Devdas , Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (11–20 July) M.F. Husain , Limited Edition Graphics and Reproductions, Sakshi Gallery (in association with Archer, Ahmedabad), Mumbai (19–31 October) 2003 Husain Hieroglyph (to coincide with the launch of the book M.F. Husain Where Art Thou transliterated by Khalid Mohamed), Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (6–31 January) Thief of Baghdad , Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Awards & Honours 1947 The Potters , Bombay Art Society 1954 Nominated as an eminent artist member of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Won international recognition at the Venice Biennale 1955 Zameen , First Award at the first National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi Padmashree, Government of India 1959 International Biennale Award, Tokyo 1967 Film Through the Eyes of a Painter , awarded the Golden Bear at the International Berlin Film Festival and purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, New York A book on Husain brought out by Harry Abrams, the New York publisher 1968 National Award for best experimental film at Berlin Film Festival 1971 Special invited artist along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennale 1973 Padma Bhushan, Government of India 1989 Padma Vibhushan 1997 Aditya Vikram Birla ‘Kalashikhar’ Award for life-time acheivement Select Collections Air India, Mumbai Badrivishal Pittie Family, Hyderabad Chester & Dervida Herwitz Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum [U.S.A.] Ebrahim Alkazi & Art Heritage, New Delhi Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Museum, Hemeji [Japan] Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Jehangir Nicholson Collection, N.C.P.A., Mumbai National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Tata Iron & Steel Co., Mumbai & many more Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp.57–9) Mookherjee, Ajit. Modern Art in India . Calcutta: 1956. [Focus on Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, M.F. Husain, Sunill Madhav Sen, M.B. Samant, Sudha Mookherjee & Tradition] Furtado, R. Three Painters: Amrita Sher-Gil, George Keyt & M.F. Husain . New Delhi: Dhoomimal Ramchand 1960. (pp.22–3 & Plates 33–48) Krishnan, S.A. Husain. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1961. [Text: Shiv S. Kapur] Bartholomew, Richard & Shiv S. Kapur. Maqbool Fida Husain . New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Kapur, Geeta. Contemporary Indian Artists . New Delhi: Vikas Publishers 1978. [Focus on M.F. Husain, Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, F.N. Souza, Ram Kumar & J. Swaminathan.] (pp.117– 45) Chatterji, Ram (Ed.). Indian Painting Today 1981 . Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1981. (pp.44–6) Chatterji, Ram (Ed.). Indian Drawing Today 1987 . Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1987. (pp.64–6) Fukuoka, Masanori (Ed.). Contemporary Indian Art – Glenberra Art Museum Collection . Jihoji Hemeji, Japan: Glenberra Japan Co. Ltd. 1993. (pp.34–5) Husain, M.F. Let History Cut Across Me Without Me . New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery 1993. Pal, Ila. Beyond the Canvas – An Unfinished Portrait of M.F. Husain . Delhi: Harper Collins 1994. Prayag Shukla (Ed.). Drawing’94 . Delhi: Gallery Espace 1994. [Text includes Notes by R. Modi, P. Shukla, K.G. Subramanyan, S. Datta, B. Khakhar, G.m. Sheikh, Jyotindra Jain & Nilima Sheikh.] (pp.54 & 102) Chawla, Rupika. Surface and Depth: Indian Artists at Work. New Delhi: Viking 1995. (pp.174–8) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams NY 1998.] (pp.36–7, 111, 160, 204, 206–8, 210, 213, 215, 219, 239, 252–3, 256, 307–12, 330, 333, 337, 365, 379 & 390) Sheikh, Gulam m. (Ed.). Contemporary Art in Baroda . New Delhi: Tulika 1997. [Research & Documentation: Belinder Dhanoa. Contributor: N. Sheikh] (pp.69 & 139)