M. F. Husain’s ‘Bhopal’ to Go Under the Auctioneer's Hammer

THE HINDU
By Parvathi Menon

"Bhopal" by Maqbool Fida Husain

UNITED KINGDOM--- ‘Bhopal’, Maqbool Fida Husain’s anguished representation of the terrible consequences of industrial negligence in Bhopal, is to go under the hammer on October 8 at the Bonhams Auction House in London. “Just as Pablo Picasso’s passion and outrage towards the Spanish Civil War had inspired him to create ‘Guernica’ (1937), ‘Bhopal’ was the result of Husain’s horror at the long-lasting effects of the leak,” the press release said, though attributing the work’s energy to Husain’s own genius that was moulded by life around him. The Bhopal disaster occurred on December 3, 1984 when a poison gas leak from a Union Carbide factory killed around 2000 people. The oil on canvas has been valued at £200,000-300,000. [link]