2 Jun 2010
14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street
Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern and South Asian Art
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Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern and South Asian Art
Back to auction 18329
Maqbol Fida Husain (India, born 1915)
Saraswati, acrylic on canvas, signed upper right, 120 x 92.5cm (47 1/4 x 36 7/16in).
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Footnotes
- This work was executed in the late 1990s.
The theme of Saraswati is one that the artist has used throughout his career. In Hinduism Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge, music and the arts, but is also revered by many other religions including Chinese, Thai and Japanese.
Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art
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