At the far end of the gallery, a lithograph in bold lines on a sepia-tinted background stands out. This is a portrait of legendary artist MF Husain, by well-known physicist Homi Bhabha made in 1961.

The 15th edition of Ahmedabad -based art collector and curator Anil Relia’s personal collection titled ‘The Indian Portrait’ that opened at the Amdavad ni Gufa gallery on Tuesday, featured a range of artists from 1850 to 2025, with the collector giving a personalised walk-through to the visitors.

Apart from Bhabha’s drawing of Husain, there was Husain’s painting of Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar , Vrindavan Solanki’s portrait of journalist Khushwant Singh in charcoal, the 1891 Raja Ravi Varma piece on Nalibai Marwanji Mehta, wife of a prominent Parsi businessman in her regalia, self

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