Shamshad Hussain (1946 – 24 October 2015) was an Indian artist and the son of
M. F. Husain
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 Ind ...
.
Early life
Shamshad was born in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
in 1946.
He attended
Baroda College of Fine Arts, where he studied a diploma in painting. He then studied at the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...
,
Hussain claims that his time there "changed my perspective about art".
Career
His first solo exhibition took place in 1968. It was at this exhibition that he sold his first painting for 50
Rs.
Awards
In 1983, Shamshad won the
Lalit Kala Academy
The Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art (LKA) is India's national academy of fine arts. It is an autonomous organisation, established in New Delhi in 1954 by Government of India to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, ...
national award.
References
20th-century Indian painters
1946 births
2015 deaths
Artists from Mumbai
Painters from Maharashtra
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
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