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Husain's journey: Of million dollar paintings and death threats

Ebullient and eccentric at the same time, barefoot painter Maqbool Fida Husain took Indian art to the global stage with his cubist-inspired modern art but was riled in controversy with his......

Have you met MF Husain? Tell us

Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India's best-known and most controversial artists,died in Royal Brompton Hospital in London early Thursday morning. He was 95.The self-taught artist, often termed as......

MF Husain: Join us as we pay condolences

Maqbool Fida Husain, once dubbed the Picasso of India, died early on Thursday morning in a London hospital at the age of 95. While people speculated if he'd be brought back to his homeland for the......

M F Husain's 94th birthday, in exile

Internationally acclaimed artist Maqbool Fida Husain, living in self-exile for the past 13 years due to threats from Hindu fundamentalists for his works, turned 94 on Thursday. Husain, who......

When M F Husain celebrated his birthday in exile

Maqbool Fida Husain, India's grand old man of art, passed away in London on Thursday morning. Husain spent the last years of his colourful life in exile, forced......

Secrets M F Husain shared with the DLF chief

Legendary artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who passed away recently, was an employee at the real estate firm DLF at a starting salary of Rs 800 in the 1960s. DLF chairman KP Singh, who has dedicated......

Brand Husain creates legacy value

In the end, he died in exile, which is the pity, because if there is anything Maqbool Fida Husain really wanted, it was to come back home to India. London, where he succumbed to a coronary......

Christie's NY auction: Husain, Tyeb Mehta on sale

Christie is expecting to rake in over 50 crores from works by South Asian artists ranging from modern masters to cutting edge contemporary artists like M F Husain, J. Swaminathan, Tyeb Mehta and......

Sotheby's India auction sees tepid response as slowdown hits art world

The sale lot of 61 pieces of art, which was spread across a variety of categories such as modern and contemporary South Asian art, prints, and photographs, realised an estimated sale price of Rs......

Invest in art, be a millionaire!

At his home studio in a vast, vacant plot of scrubland on the border of Mehrauli, artist Jagannath Panda is juggling with six different ideas on six different canvases. The proposed exhibition of......

The Legends who left us in 2011

We take a look at some of the legends, who passed away in 2011. The year 2011's been a year of many deaths, in every walk of life. Steve Jobs died and so did Osama Bin Laden. Here, then, are the......

The Swarup Filmfare awards!

The Swarup Group of Industries has been selected as the sponsor for the golden jubilee Filmfare Awards this year. The group is owned by Guru Swarup Srivastava, who shot into the limelight with his......

When I first set eyes on Madhuri...

Madhuri Dixit may have said goodbye to Bollywood, but the industry refuses to forget her. On her birthday, Indra Kumar (who directed her in Dil, Beta and Raja), and Akbar Khan (her first co-star in......

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