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    Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist who became well known in the late 1940s as a member of the Progressive Artists' Group. He was called the "Picasso of India" and had major solo exhibitions in Europe and the US. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s, some of his paintings depicting Hindu religious figures caused controversy. He faced legal challenges and death threats in India, so he accepted Qatari citizenship and lived in self-imposed exile. His paintings sold for millions of dollars at auction.

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    Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist who became well known in the late 1940s as a member of the Progressive Artists' Group. He was called the "Picasso of India" and had major solo exhibitions in Europe and the US. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s, some of his paintings depicting Hindu religious figures caused controversy. He faced legal challenges and death threats in India, so he accepted Qatari citizenship and lived in self-imposed exile. His paintings sold for millions of dollars at auction.

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    Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist who became well known in the late 1940s as a member of the Progressive Artists' Group. He was called the "Picasso of India" and had major solo exhibitions in Europe and the US. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s, some of his paintings depicting Hindu religious figures caused controversy. He faced legal challenges and death threats in India, so he accepted Qatari citizenship and lived in self-imposed exile. His paintings sold for millions of dollars at auction.

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    Maqbool Fida Husain

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    Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur, India) popularly known as MF, is an artist of Indian

    origin.
    According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India".[2] In 1996 controversy arose over paintings
    originally painted in the 1970s which were interpreted as anti-Hindu. After legal cases and death threats in his home
    country, he was on a self imposed exile from 2006. In January, 2010, he was offered the citizenship of Qatar, which he
    accepted.
    1940-1965
    Husain first became well-known as an artist in the late 1940s. In 1947, he joined the Progressive Artists' Group, founded
    by Francis Newton Souza. This was a clique of young artists who wished to break with the nationalist traditions
    established by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde, engaged at an international level. In 1952,
    his first solo exhibition was held at Zürich and over the next few years, his work was widely seen in Europe and the U.S.
    In 1955, he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree prize by the Government of India.[3]
    [edit] 1965-1990
    In 1967, he made his first film, Through the Eyes of a Painter. It was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and won a Golden
    Bear.[4][5]
    M. F. Husain was a special invitee along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971.[5] He has been awarded the
    Padma Bhushan in 1973 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986.[5] He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in
    1991.
    [edit] 1990-present
    Husain went on to become the highest paid painter in India. His single canvases have fetched up to $2 million at a recent
    Christie's auction.[6]
    He has also worked (produced & directed) on few movies, including Gaja Gamini (with his muse Madhuri Dixit who was
    the subject of a series of his paintings which he signed Fida). The film was intended as a tribute to Ms. Dixit herself. [7] In
    this film she can be seen portraying various forms and manifestations of womanhood including the muse of Kalidasa, the
    Mona Lisa, a rebel, and musical euphoria. He went on to make Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (with Tabu). His
    autobiography is being made into a movie tentatively titled The Making of the Painter, starring Shreyas Talpade as the
    young Husain.[8]
    The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) (USA, Massachusetts) showed a solo exhibition from 4 November 2006 to 3 June
    2007. It exhibited Husain’s paintings inspired by the Hindu epic, Mahabharata.
    At the age of 92 Husain was to be given the prestigious Raja Ravi Varma award by the government of Kerala.[9] The
    announcement led to controversy in Kerala and some cultural organisations campaigned against the granting of the award
    and petitioned the Kerala courts. Sabarimala spokesperson, Rahul Easwar, went to Kerala High Court and it granted an
    interim order to stay the granting of the award until the petition had been disposed of. [10]
    In early 2008, Husain’s Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12, a large diptych, from the Hindu epic, fetched $1.6
    million, setting a world record at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sale
    Mother India
    In the February 6, 2006 issue, India Today, a national English weekly published an advertisement titled "Art For Mission
    Kashmir". This advertisement contains a painting of Bharatmata (Mother India) as a nude woman posed across a map of
    India with the names of Indian States on various parts of her body. The exhibition was organised by Nafisa Ali of Action
    India (NGO) and Apparao Art Gallery.[22] Organizations like Hindu Jagruti Samiti and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) have
    protested persistently against Husain displaying the painting on the websites and even in exhibitions in north Europe. As a
    result, on February 7, 2006 Husain apologised and promised to withdraw the painting from an auction. [23][24] The painting
    later appeared on Husain's official website.
    [edit] Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities
    Husain's film Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities[25] was pulled out of movie theatres a day after some Muslim organisations
    raised objections to one of the songs in it.[26] The All-India Ulema Council complained that the Qawwali song Noor-un-
    Ala-Noor was blasphemous. It argued that the song contained words directly taken from the Quran. The council was
    supported by Muslim organisations like the Milli Council, All-India Muslim Council, Raza Academy, Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-
    Hind and Jamat-e-Islami. Husain's son stated that the words were a phrase referring to divine beauty that were being sung
    by the central character played by Tabu. He said there was no intention to offend. Following the wave of protests the
    enraged artist pulled off his movie from the theaters. The movie was well received by the critics, however, and went on to
    win various awards.

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