Even after his passing as during his lifetime, M. F. Husain remains India’s most well-known artist. It was on June 9, 2011, that Husain passed away at the age of 97 in London, in exile, having been chastised out of India as a result of the controversy arising out of his contentious paintings of Hindu goddesses.
The retrospective assumes significance as the rise of Tyeb Mehta’s artworks in the market heralded the birth of Indian art market itself two decades ago