Life after death
Though M.F. Husain died a Qatari citizen, a new retrospective in Doha revisits his work from the several places he called home
by Shaikh Ayaz
Apr 26, 2019
3 minutes
In 2014, three years after his death at 95, India's most famous exile received a swan song at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, which exhibited his final works, the nine paintings known as the Indian Civilization series. The lushly-mounted series was a homage to the rich diversity of Indian culture. Today, it's time for Maqbool Fida Husain's adopted home to give him a much-needed retrospective that, fittingly, riffs on the idea of home and belonging.
Aptly called Horses of the Sun, the exhibition at
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