M F Husain - Why is he the Picasso of India?

Why was M F Husain known as the ’Picasso of India’? The Indian artist Maqboul Fida Hussain was born on the 17th of September 1915, although some records suggest it was 1913 in Pandharpur in Maharashtra in India. At the age of 20 M. F Husain went to Bombay, now known as Mumbai, and studied art at the Sir J. J. School of Art. His break came in the late 1940’s when he won a prize at the Annual exhibition of Bombay Art Society. This brought his work to the attention of the influential Indian artist Francis Newton Souza. In 1947 Souza invited M. F. Husain to become a founder member of the Bombay Progressive Artist’s group. During this time M F Husain’s reputation grew and he held his first solo exhibition outside of India in 1952 in Zurich, Switzerland. Later, in 1964 he held his first exhibition the United States in India House in New York. The majority of his painting were created in a modified Cubist style. He often painted a series of paintings around a single topic covering themes as di