While M. F. Husain’s preferred mode of painting was flat plains and blocks of colour, he executed a small series of heads that are richly layered, almost as though done in encaustic. Queen is a crowned head of a female face in profile, indicating the use of a heavy impasto technique to delineate her features; it also lends a primitivist characterisation to the figure. He suggests a chin, nose and gouged eyes without any distinguishing definition. The figure has a sculptural dimension to it, as if rising from the earthy and sombre canvas.
M. F. Husain
Queen
1962
Oil on ply board
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M. F. Husain
Queen
1962
Oil on ply board
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