MF Husain's painting 'Bhopal' that strongly echoes Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' is set to be auctioned on October 8.
The painting that is to be auctioned at Indian and Islamic Art Sale at London's New Bond Street is estimated at a value of 200,000 pounds -300,000 pounds. In 1984, Bhopal, Capital of Madhya Pradesh, experienced one of the worst gas leaks in world history, which killed about 2,000 people.
As Pablo Picasso's passion and outrage towards the Spanish Civil War inspired him to create 'Guernica' (1937), 'Bhopal' resulted from Husain's horror at the long-lasting effects of the gas leak.
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