Unknown Artist
30 x 20 x 15 cm; 12 x 8 x 6 in
The forehead and the sunken eyes speak of a son?s ode to his father. Giacometti once said: `One wants to sculpt a living being, but in this living being life comes from the look, the expression.? Shamshad Husain?s portrait of M.F. Husain is an expressionist endeavour, a reality and a truth that emanates from the expression and not from the visage as it were. The jaw line and the beard gives us a perception of the quirk of Husain?of the primeval spirit that surges to express the essence of life.