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M. F. Husain

1915 - 2011

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Maqbool Fidaa Hussain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. F. Husain has received more than 2,405,761 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). M. F. Husain is the 1,298th most popular painter (down from 1,202nd in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from India (down from 385th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, M. F. Husain ranks 1,298 out of 2,023. Before him are Vilmos Aba-Novák, Francesco Zuccarelli, Pieter Boel, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Maria Wodzińska, and Boris Yefimov. After him are Gerard de Lairesse, Virginie Demont-Breton, Philip Guston, Marlene Dumas, On Kawara, and Giovanni Santi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, M. F. Husain ranks 127. Before him are Hoàng Văn Thái, Nikos Beloyannis, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Eddie Bracken, Albert O. Hirschman, and Vítězslava Kaprálová. After him are John Tukey, Hans Christian Blech, Wilhelm Gliese, Zulfiya, Taheyya Kariokka, and Norman Wisdom. Among people deceased in 2011, M. F. Husain ranks 180. Before him are Pak Seung-zin, Kazimierz Świątek, Anne Francis, Mutassim Gaddafi, Ingvar Wixell, and Seve Ballesteros. After him are Paulette Dubost, Lawrence Eagleburger, Romuald Klim, Würzel, Clarence Clemons, and Arnošt Lustig.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. F. Husain ranks 428 out of 1,861. Before him are Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Satya Nadella (1967), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), and Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850). After him are Udham Singh (1899), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), and B. V. Doshi (1927).

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Among PAINTERS In India

Among painters born in India, M. F. Husain ranks 3. Before him are Raja Ravi Varma (1848), and Abanindranath Tagore (1871). After him are Jamini Roy (1887), and Basawan (1560).

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