Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Fine Arts | February 2019

Indian Modern Fine Arts | 125 58 M.F. HUSAIN 17 September 1915 / 9 June 2011 Horses Series Oil on canvas, 1999 Signed in Devanagari and Engish ‘Husain’ and dated ‘99’ t.r. Drawing of a Horse figure, signed in Devanagari and Engish ‘Husain’ and dated ‘28/12/99’ on verso 36.0 x 36.0 in (91.4 x 91.4 cm) Provenance Acquired directly from the artist M.F. Husain by eminent Hyderabad-based art & vintage automobile collector Shri Ramprakash Agarwal (Also see Lot 42) INR 3,000,000 – 4,500,000 US$ 42,254 – 63,380 Verso Husain’s horses swept across continents, amalgamating various influences into a composite form. The Duldul horse, which he had seen from his childhood on taziasin 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 between 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