MUMBAI: As news of M F Husain 's death spread, several Facebookers posted pictures of or changed their profile pictures to the artists's controversial Bharat Mata painting which resulted in him ...

In a long career in which he had weathered many a storm, Husain became a casualty of this one painting of Bharat Mata even after the high court's reprieve to him in 2008.

Criminal complaints accusing of outraging religious sentiments had been filed in courts in these two cities against his painting that depicts 'Bharat Mata', or 'Mother India', as a nude woman.

From court cases to vandalised exhibitions, to fatwas by Hindu hardliners, MF Husain was catapulted from the most celebrated Indian artist to the most controversial one in 1996. Ten years later ...

Talking to us about it at Christie’s in Hong Kong, Francis Belin, President of Christie's Asia Pacific⁠, says, “MF Hussain is the greatest ever. His work is incredible and the fact that his ...

Husain, one of India's most prolific and respected painters left the country in 2006 after the right-wing Hindutva groups protested his depiction of "Bharat Mata and Indian goddesses in the nude ...

The row surrounding Husain, a Muslim, had focused on a 2004 painting of a nude woman whose shape mimics the contours of the map of India and which was sold under the title “Bharat Mata”, or ...

The paintings are set to go up for auction for the first time on 12 June in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

Shalini was only 20 years old when she got married to Sanjay Passi, a businessman, and their wedding cards were designed by artist MF Husain. However there was a condition that MF Husain had put ...

In 2006, a series of lawsuits were filed against Husain over his painting Bharat Mata, a nude depiction of Mother India. Muslim groups, too, condemned him for incorporating Quranic verses into a ...