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M F Husain

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Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra) popularly known as M F Husain, is one of India's best known artists. According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India". After a long, successful career his work suddenly became controversial in 1996, when he was 81 years old, following the publication of an article about nude images of Hindu deities painted in the 1970s. Moreover, the commoan Indian arguably knows him as a painter fan of the Bollywood Diva Madhuri Dixit. He has openly admitted his great admiration for Dixit at numerous occasions from 90s.
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