By PTI |New York |Updated: March 22, 2019 11:57:27 am
M F Husain’s mural-sized painting ‘Lightning’ exhibits at Asia Society Museum
One of the founding members of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Husain created the painting as part of a series of paintings about India's first female Prime Minister.
A massive 10-foot tall mural-sized painting created in 1975 by legendary artist M F Husain as a backdrop for former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s public rally is on display at the renowned Asia Society Museum here. The 60-foot wide oil on canvas painting ‘Lightning’ depicts horses, among Husain’s favourite subjects to paint, on 12 large panels put together.
One of the founding members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, Husain created the painting as part of a series of paintings about India’s first female Prime Minister.
Gandhi had completed 11 years as prime minister and was addressing a meeting in Shivaji Park in Mumbai, then called Bombay in 1975. Husain painted ‘Lightning’ as a backdrop to this meeting. On June 25 of that year, Gandhi imposed a state of emergency across India.
The exhibition ‘M F Husain – Art and The Nation’ will run at the leading museum and cultural organisation through August 4. The painting has been lent to Asia Society by entrepreneur, investor and art collector Kent Charugundla, who had purchased the artwork from Husain in December 2002. Charugundla said after he started collecting the progressive artist’s works, he was fascinated by Husain’s paintings and wanted to have his largest work.
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