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Lot Essay
I did a series of black paintings. These were done only with one color, in black, or rather in achromatic, because black is not a color. Light made the markings in the black paint visible. Recently I did a series of paintings only in white. They have never been exhibited.
(Written interview with Varsha)
Diary: 23 October 1975
These last couple of days in Karachi (I'm leaving for Delhi on the 25th) I did 10 small oils: 2 mosques - the first: Red Mosque was bought by Wahab; a still life (flowers); a head, in Memory of Shakir Ali; two landscapes, one standing nude, and three unusual paintings all in white titled Begum, Mosque and Still life. These white paintings correspond to the Black paintings of 1965 - exactly 10 years later - like anti-matter. They are interesting, if a little too mysterious. I don't care for mystry [sic] in painting, my own mystique as a person yes, mystique being a fancy name for legend, but the mysterious in art can result in a lot of sham and charletanism [sic]. The plastic quality of art precludes mystry which could be "shrouded" ambiguous and foggy.
(Written interview with Varsha)
Diary: 23 October 1975
These last couple of days in Karachi (I'm leaving for Delhi on the 25th) I did 10 small oils: 2 mosques - the first: Red Mosque was bought by Wahab; a still life (flowers); a head, in Memory of Shakir Ali; two landscapes, one standing nude, and three unusual paintings all in white titled Begum, Mosque and Still life. These white paintings correspond to the Black paintings of 1965 - exactly 10 years later - like anti-matter. They are interesting, if a little too mysterious. I don't care for mystry [sic] in painting, my own mystique as a person yes, mystique being a fancy name for legend, but the mysterious in art can result in a lot of sham and charletanism [sic]. The plastic quality of art precludes mystry which could be "shrouded" ambiguous and foggy.