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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anwar Jalal Shemza, The Orchard, 1974

Anwar Jalal Shemza

The Orchard, 1974
Ink on handmade Japanese paper
42.9 x 54.5 cm
16 7/8 x 21 1/2 in
Signed in Urdu lower right
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This work is part of the City Wall series, and it marries the two motifs that are a recurrent theme in Shemza's works, the City and the Wall. The City...
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This work is part of the City Wall series, and it marries the two motifs that are a recurrent theme in Shemza's works, the City and the Wall. The City and the Wall have been constructed through the use of the Roman letters B and D, whilst the pattern itself was created using the materials of muslin and ink. Directly to the left of the City and Wall we can see the waxing and waning of the moons in the sky. In composition, this work is similar to the work, The Wall that was used as the catalogue cover for Hayward Gallery's seminal exhibition in 1989, The Other Story and is part of the collection of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Parallel's can also be drawn with Untitled, mixed media, which is in the National Museum of Art, PNCA, Islamabad. (Akbar Naqvi, Image and Identity: Fifty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan, 1998, p. 284, fig. 89)
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Provenance

Private British Collection, acquired from the artist by the vendor;
Private British Collection
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