One of the most important modern artists of Pakistan, Syed Ahmed Sadequain Naqvi grew up in pre-Partition India in Amroha (present-day Uttar Pradesh) in a family of calligraphers. He worked in New Delhi with the All India Radio as a calligrapher-copyist before shifting to the new nation of Pakistan in 1947. Calligraphy would soon go on to be the mainstay of his art, which he would beautifully integrate with a favourite trope—the cactus plant, as a metaphor of struggle. This Untitled work too gives expression to human struggle where calligraphy melts into thorny edges exemplifying drudgery of existence.
Sadequain
Untitled
1982
Oil and marker on canvas
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Sadequain
Untitled
1982
Oil and marker on canvas
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