[1]Mother Teresa’s birth centenary celebrations were launched in London with a Twenty20 exhibition of paintings on the Nobel peace laureate by Maqbool Fida Husain and Sunita Kumar at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Wednesday.
The one-day exclusive show of 40 portraits of Mother Teresa by Husain and Kumar, who was a close associate and friend of Mother Teresa’s for over 30 years, will move to Singapore and then to Kolkata from mid-November for six weeks. The gallery for Kolkata show has not been finalised as yet, but the exhibition will continue past Christmas there, Kumar said. Talks are also on to take the exhibition, which comprises of 20 paintings on Mother by Sunita Kumar, 18 silk screen prints measuring seven by four feet and two paintings by Husain, to Hong Kong. The joint exhibition came together by happy coincidence, Kumar told this newspaper. “Husain Saab is an old friend and he always keeps in touch with us,” said Sunita Kumar, who is married to former David Cup tennis player and Indian captain Naresh Kumar.
“He said, why don’t we do a Twenty20 show while we were chatting generally,” revealed Kumar, who was Mother Teresa’s biographer and official spokesperson and still continues to be the spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity.
“I replied, ‘It sounds more like cricket,’ but he said that he was very serious about doing a show on Mother Teresa together,” Kumar said, adding that she has held joint shows with Husain earlier. “Husain’s only condition was that the show, which will be a travelling show, should open in London and that too in V&A Museum,” Kumar said.
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