Maqbool Fida Husain, Indian, English, 1913 to 2011, acrylic painting on canvas depicting a genre scene with human figures and bulls. Signed, lower right. Completed with an original certificate of authenticity, signed by M. F. Husain. Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly colored narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artists of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists Group. M.F. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists Group used modern techniques 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 somber. His themes sometimes treated in series include topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. Contemporary Oriental Modernist Fine Art, South Asian Artists. One of a kind artwork.