Art 3178 -

Serial Number: ART1736

Valuation:
BHD 200

Medium:
Hand Painted Wood Crafts Toys

Type:
Hand carving toy

Style:
Toys

Date:
undated

Size:
37 x 37 cm

Artist:
Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists Group.

Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the New India after The Partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes, sometimes treated in series, include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. Early in his painting career, and until his death, he enjoyed depicting the lively and free spirit of horses in many of his works. Husain is the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artist of the 20th century. Husain is primarily known for his paintings, but is also known for his drawings and his work as a printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker. Some of his later works stirred controversy, as they depicted traditional deities of India in non-traditional ways including nude portrayals of the deiti

Status: Display

Description:
Nearly 3 decades before M.F Hussain created this work, when he was yet to find his way into the top levels of modern Indian Art. The self taught artist was painting cinema poster and hoardings and making wooden toys and furniture in Bombay, This gouache works featuring a potter with his wares is a hard back to those days when the artist was still on the fringes of mainstreams art but genius reflected through all that he created. Its not just a skilled execution of lines but rootedness of his concepts, as an evident on his toys and toy series of works that would catapult him international stardom.

He was one of the most celebrated masters of modern Indian art. By now, most of us are familiar with his signature brushstroke on canvas. but as the world is discovering now, it is his earliest works of art wood crafted toys for children where the legendary painters style first came to life. Also began designing wooden toys. Hussain worked with a furniture shop for 6 years a period during which his salary increased from 6 to 300 he continued making toys even after he quite the job in 1947. in 1975, Hussain tried again to recreate the magic of the wooden toys, using Styrofoam, even experts in the field don t know how to many those toys Hussain made.

The art was part of Mr. Faraj trip to India from the 31st of May to 6th of June 2024