Doha to open first museum dedicated to M F Husain in November

Forced into self-imposed exile aft his arguable paintings drew threats successful India, Maqbool Fida Husain made Doha his home, accepting honorary citizenship of Qatar successful 2010.

Now, the metropolis volition location the world’s archetypal depository dedicated to the barefoot artist, who was often described arsenic India’s Picasso. On November 28, Qatar Foundation volition unfastened Lawh Wa Qalam: M F Husain Museum successful Doha. The depository volition hint Husain’s prolific vocation from the 1950s until his decease successful London successful 2011.The announcement comes conscionable months aft Husain’s Gram Yatra, a monumental enactment depicting 13 vignettes of agrarian life, sold for Rs 118 crore astatine Christie’s New York.

The record-breaking merchantability made it the astir costly Indian artwork ever auctioned. If the Christie’s merchantability underscored Husain’s marketplace value, the Doha depository aims to illuminate the breadth of his creator legacy. Husain, who painted adjacent till a fewer weeks earlier his death, is known for his cubist horses, mythological themes and passionateness for cinema.

In 1 interview, helium famously said: “Log kaam karne ke baad ghode bech kar sote hain, Main ghode bech kar movie banata hoon” (People slumber similar a equine aft moving their full beingness and I merchantability horses to marque films).

Spanning much than 3,000 sq m, it volition showcase assorted facets of Husain’s multidisciplinary signifier — from paintings, films and tapestry to photography, poetry, installations, and idiosyncratic objects — presented done immersive storytelling."We acceptable retired to make a location that celebrates his multidisciplinary genius," said Noof Mohammed, Curator and Project Manager of the museum. "Visitors tin embark connected a travel done his sketches, idiosyncratic objects, and iconic and never-before-seen works, experiencing the tone of an creator who ne'er ceased to experiment.

This depository allows visitors to brushwood Husain arsenic helium lived: with the utmost curiosity and perpetually successful speech with the satellite astir him.

Our anticipation is that each visitant volition permission having been inspired and with a heavy transportation to the bequest of 1 of the top artists of our time."The building, designed by New Delhi-based designer Martand Khosla, is based connected a drafting Husain made for his ain museum. Khosla, who besides designed the award-winning M F Husain Art Gallery astatine Jamia Millia Islamia University, described the task arsenic a unsocial collaboration crossed time.

“It has been a privilege to person engaged successful this imagined architectural sermon with Husain (through our mentation of his drawing) arsenic a collaborator — a displacement from my ain Indian modernist practice,” helium said.Among the highlights volition beryllium a bid of paintings commissioned by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Foundation, and inspired by Arab civilization. Husain completed much than 35 of these earlier his death, respective of which volition beryllium connected display. A dedicated assemblage volition besides contiguous Seeroo fi al ardh, Husain’s last large-scale installation conceived successful 2009, which depicts humanity’s progress.