Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | January 2008

97 68 M.F. Husain (b.1915) Horse Signed in English ‘Husain’ l.l. Oil on canvas, late 1970s 36.0 x 24.0 in (91.5 x 61.0 cm) INR 4,000,000 – 5,000,000 USD 100,000 – 125,000 69 M.F. Husain (b.1915) Seeru-Fil-Ard S/d in English ‘Husain 81’ l.c. Watercolour on paper, 1981 18.4 x 14.3 in (46.8 x 36.2 cm) INR 1,200,000 – 1,500,000 USD 30,000 – 37,500 ‘Husain’s horses swept across continents, amalgamating various influences into a composite form. The Duldul horse, which he had seen from his childhood on tazias in Muharram processions, had been modified, first by the Chinese rendering of the horse and then by the plasticity of form in Franz Marc and Mario Marini’s balance berween horizontal and vertical lines. Husain’s horses, however, are singularly his own’. Yashodhara Dalmia. rpt. in The Making of Modern Indian Art The Progressives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. 107-8.