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MF Husain: How India's 'biggest art deal' buried masterpieces in a bank vault

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25 rare MF Husain paintings will go under the hammer at an art gallery in Mumbai next week .

They are part of an ambitious 100-painting series he never finished, one of India 's most celebrated modern artists.

The paintings have been locked away in bank vaults since 2008 after authorities seized them from a prominent businessman over an alleged loan default.

Another painting honours Charlie Chaplin while juxtaposing a rocket launch to highlight the contrast between social and economic disparities and massive state spending. Other paintings depict a world battling poverty, soldiers in trenches, and humanity confronting tragedies like World War Two , the Partition , and the Holocaust ..

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