Google doodle on modernist painter M F Husain

September 17, 2015 14:31

On his 100th birth anniversary M F Husain, one of the best known painters in modern and contemporary India, has been honoured with a Google Doodle.

The late painter, who died at the age of 95 on June 9, 2011 has been pictured in the doodle with a paintbrush in hand flanked by colourful circles suggestive of the search engine Google's logo.

Born Maqbool Fida Husain in Pandharpur, in Maharashtra he exhibited mastery over techniques of line and colour and over a career that spanned decades turned out a prolific amount of artworks.

He was particularly fond of creating large sized canvases and he had begun his career in his 20s as a painter of cinema hoardings.

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