New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- In 2008, while living in Doha, artist M.F. Husain completed a sketch of a building, resplendent in blue, with waters of the Persian Gulf visible in the background. This was his blueprint for the M.F. Husain Art & Cinema Museum-a vision which is finally coming to fruition in a country, which offered him citizenship and a home during the artist's self-imposed exile from India.

Titled the Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum, this space, covering 3000 square meters, is all set to open on 28 November within Qatar Foundation's Education City. Being hailed as the "world's first and largest institution dedicated to tracing Husain's artistic journey from the 1950s until his death", the museum has been designed by New Delhi-base...