Panaji, Aug 11 - Goa State Museum officials will meet later this week to decide whether artist M. F. Husain's painting titled 'Standing Buddha' should continue to be displayed, after a right-wing Hindu group sought its removal.

Goa Museum director Radha Bhave said that she would be meeting higher officials later this week to decide on whether to continue the display of the oil painting which shows a white bull against a vividly coloured backdrop.

'I will need time to decide on the matter, I will have to take my seniors into confidence. We will meet and take a decision collectively,' Bhave told reporters Tuesday.

Earlier Tuesday, in a written representation to the museum authorities, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) convenor Jayesh Thali, while admitting that he had no basic objection to this particular painting, said the outfit was simultaneously working at preventing Husain's art from being displayed publicly throughout India.