India, June 5 -- Dadiba Pundole recollects the day towards the end of 2003 when Maqbool Fida Husain walked into the Pundole's art gallery, located in Fort, Mumbai, and asked Dadiba to postpone the next exhibition, as he wanted to use the space as a studio. "He told us, 'I've lived through the 20th century, and I want to document it in paint'," Dadiba said. That very evening, buckets of paint and rolls of canvas arrived. Husain, then 90, pinned one stretch of canvas up on the long side of the gallery and approached it with a charcoal. Over the course of the next few weeks, during which time Dadiba grew increasingly anxious, Husain sketched and painted almost incessantly, bringing icons and political events to life with bold colours. "At th...