Maqbool Fida Husain has published many of his paintings and watercolors as serigraphs and offset prints in an attempt to bring art to the low-priced collectors. His first foray into printmaking was in late 1950s when several members of the Progressive Artists Group including Tyeb Mehta, Padamsee and Ramkumar got together to produce, and exhibit prints in an unsuccessful attempt to bring art to collectors who could not afford their canvas paintings.  Husain produced a series of four prints to illustrate rural life in India.  The exhibition was a dismal failure and none of the prints sold and were consequently gifted to their friends and families.  Many prints got destroyed.  In the last ten years some of the surviving prints have appeared at auctions and are now very much sought by collectors worldwide.