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South Asian Modern Art 2023

Past exhibition
9 - 30 June 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jamil Naqsh, Untitled (Restrained Woman and Pigeon), 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jamil Naqsh, Untitled (Restrained Woman and Pigeon), 1981

Jamil Naqsh

Untitled (Restrained Woman and Pigeon), 1981
Oil on canvas
91.6 x 61.3 cm
36 x 24 1/8 in
Signed and dated 'jamil Naqsh 1981, Pakistan' lower right; further signed, dated and inscribed 'JAMIL NAQSH/ T-122/2 Tariq Road/ Karachi Pakistan/ 14th Aug 1981' on the reverse
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Manjit Bawa, Cows, 1994
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Manjit Bawa, Cows, 1994
Whilst similar in composition to Woman and Pigeon (1979), this painting is executed in a markedly different style. Rather than employ a pointillist style, usually seen in his work from...
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Whilst similar in composition to Woman and Pigeon (1979), this painting is executed in a markedly different style. Rather than employ a pointillist style, usually seen in his work from the 1970s and 80s, Naqsh blends the paint, creating flat, plastic areas of paint, giving the work a remarkably realistic feel, with areas of trompe l'oeil, such as the frayed ends of the rope.

According to the vendor who was a close friend of the Artist, the painting was inspired by a spate of cases of brutality against women in Pakistan. It is therefore a rare painting in that it clearly states a political message, something extremely uncommon in Naqsh’s oeuvre.
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Provenance

Private UK collection, (acquired directly from the Artist)

Exhibitions

South Asian Modern Art 2023, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 8-30 June, No.43, (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue)
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