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M. F. Husain

1915 - 2011

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Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. F. Husain has received more than 2,319,891 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). M. F. Husain is the 1,203rd most popular painter (up from 1,207th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from India (down from 387th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, M. F. Husain ranks 1,203 out of 1,421. Before him are Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Juan Fernández Navarrete, L. S. Lowry, Emanuel Leutze, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and Aleksander Gierymski. After him are Oda Krohg, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Sattar Bahlulzade, Wojciech Kossak, Eva Bonnier, and Mark Tobey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, M. F. Husain ranks 132. Before him are Alberto Burri, Karl Leisner, Saifuddin Azizi, Liisi Oterma, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and Ghulam Ishaq Khan. After him are Nikos Beloyannis, Zulfiya, Wilhelm Gliese, Alykul Osmonov, Vladimir Zeldin, and Herman Wouk. Among people deceased in 2011, M. F. Husain ranks 181. Before him are Michael S. Hart, George Shearing, Ladislav Novák, Lilian Jackson Braun, Wiel Coerver, and Erhard Loretan. After him are Yevhen Rudakov, Paulette Dubost, Anatole Abragam, Pak Seung-zin, Ida Fink, and Peter Gethin.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. F. Husain ranks 388 out of 1,493. Before him are Pingali Venkayya (1876), Margaret Murray (1863), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Rishi Kapoor (1952), and Hemu (1501). After him are Kalyan Singh (1932), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Bal Thackeray (1926), Malik Kafur (1250), Shibli Nomani (1857), and Ivan Dias (1936).

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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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