Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Fine Arts | June 2017

61 M.F. Husain (1915 – 2011) Mother Teresa Series Oil on canvas, nd (Early 1990s) Signed ‘Husain’ t.r. 40.6 x 22.8 in (103.0 x 58.0 cm) Provenance Acquired directly from the artist M.F. Husain during the early 1990s during his frequent visits to Delhi. INR 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 USD 25,000 – 37,500 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. 132 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art