Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts and Books | April 2017

65 M.F. Husain 1913-2011 Mother Teresa Series Oil on canvas, 1980 Signed in Devanagari ‘Husain’ and dated in English ‘80’ l.l. 20.1 x 15.0 in (51.0 x 38.0 cm) Provenance Formerly from the Family Collection of Late Smt. Indira Gandhi INR 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 USD 23,880 – 35,820 “In the way it [Mother Teresa Series] was conceived…I was working on the church with Charles Correa, with the stained glass effect, and the later work that I did, dedicated to Cimabue. All those drawings, then going to churches, cathedrals in small towns, and seeing the relationship of draperies with Byzantine art, and learning to express concepts via draperies, robes, very much stuck in me, the folds fascinated me, and so when I thought of expressing Mother Teresa, and how to do it, these ideas came to my mind”. – M. F. Husain, interview with Neville Tuli, The Flamed Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting , Mapin-Heart, Ahmedabad, 1997. p.311. 142 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art