Protest: Sale of M F Husain’s paintings by Christie’s

Shravan Krushna Trutiya, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

Appeal to devout Hindus

Christie’s has organised sale of high value paintings by M F Husain from 15 September. The value of these painting range from $30,000 to $500,000. It is well known that M F Husain is Anti-Hindu painter which has drawn nude paintings of Hindu Deities and Bharatmata. It is duty of all Hindus and Indians to protest lawfully against Christie’s so that they should stop exhibition and sale of paintings by M F Husain. Christie’s should also apologise to all Hindus for hurting their religious sentiments.

Devout Hindus are protesting lawfully on following Contact Details: Main Contact page : http://www.christies.com/about/help/contact/ E-mail: [email protected] Phone: London +44 (0)20 7839 9060               New York +1 212 492 5485 Monday-Friday , 9.00 a.m – 6.00 p.m.

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Christie’s highest value Indian art sale on 15 September

New York: Over 100 artworks by modern masters S H Raza, F N Souza and M F Husain alongside big names in contemporary art like Subodh Gupta, Rashid Rana and Atul Dodiya will feature in a sale here next month and are expected to realise in excess of $10 million.

On 15 September, Christie’s South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction will include these carefully selected works from leading 20th and 21st century South Asian artists.

Raza’s magnificent La Terre, 1985, (estimate: $2,000,000-2,500,000) leads the sale. A masterpiece which belongs to a key period in the artist’s career, it powerfully integrates vital elements of Raza’s Indian heritage.

Another highlight is Souza’s Untitled (Large Head), 1962 (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000). This visionary head sums up Souza at his very best: made up of fantastical organic and mechanical elements like parts in a clock, it evokes an automaton, a perpetual mobile of his art.

Husain’s Untitled (sitar player) (estimate: $350,000-500,000) reflects the enormous inspiration the artist draws from the inter-disciplinary nature of music, sculpture, dance, painting and film. The present work depicts his masterful synthesis of a classically Indian subject (the sitar player) into a modern artistic language.

The auction features a remarkable selection of contemporary art from the region and Gupta’s Two Cows (estimate: $280,000-350,000) is one of the major highlights in the sale.

In this work Gupta combines utilitarian objects familiar to both rural and urban echelons of Indian society.

Stainless steel containers and the simple bicycle are ubiquitous objects and epitomise the artist’s ability to find tension and irony in the mundane.

Densely Packed, 2004 (estimate: $250,000-300,000) is another featured work by Gupta. Here the artist documents the daily life of the bazaars via a quasi-photo realistic rendition of a vessel stall, recasting an ensemble of traditional objects of Indian culture.

Dodiya will be represented by various significant works, including Kalki, 2002 (estimate: $180,000-250,000).

Choosing the common shop shutter as a medium, Dodiya alludes to India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, and carefully juxtaposes images on the shutter and canvas behind to play on the notions of open or closed and private or public to reflect the dynamism of India’s rapidly growing economy.

Additional highlights will include Anju Dodiya’s Garden of Capillaries, 2005 (estimate: $80,000-120,000); Manjit Bawa’s Untitled (Durga) (estimate: $200,000 – 250,000); and TV Santhosh’s Scars of an Ancient Error, 2006 (estimate: $100,000 – 150,000).

Source: Livemint.com

Success against M F Husain after protest by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti

1) MF Husain’s denigratory painting on Lord Krushna removed at New Delhi
2) Mumbai: Husain’s paintings withdrawn from exhibition by ‘Traditional art’
3) Husain’s paintings excluded from exhibition
4) Art work of M.F. Husain removed from an exhibition
5) NDTV changed the decision to give Award to Husain

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