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MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1913-2011)
Untitled (Face of a Girl); Untitled (Faces); Untitled (Woman)
signed in Hindi and inscribed and dated in Urdu (lower right); signed in Hindi (lower center) and inscribed and dated in Urdu (upper right); signed in Hindi and dated '69' (upper right)
ink on paper; oil pastel on paper
958 x 678 in. (24.4 x 17.5 cm.); 678 x 934 in. (17.5 x 24.8 cm.); 30 x 1118 in. (76.2 x 28.3 cm.)
Executed in 1965; 1969; three works on paper
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Provenance
The Estate of Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy
The Collection of Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy and Behroze Gandhy
Christie's Mumbai, 19 December 2013, lot 42
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Mumbai, Gallery Chemould, Impressions of Kabul, August 1965 (one exhibited)
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Lot Essay

"The drawing is certain and daringly economical. The thick, muscular, exploratory line is broken or interrupted by blocks of bold colour. This line is different from the slender graceful line of the Pahari painters or the revelatory voluptuousness so characteristic of Matisse's drawing. Poise and resplendent colour, emotively used, provide the spectator the key to the prevailing mood." (R. Bartholomew, 'Ten Paintings by M.F. Husain', Thought, 12 April, 1958)

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