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"If we look at Shemza’s use of textile, calligraphy, plant forms and language in this way, we begin to understand a new layer of importance in just what it was he was struggling for. It was not a simple juxtaposition of modernism with ‘ethnic’ form, but a more complex anthropomorphism in which the very contingencies of modernism and oriental pattern, and their allegorical potential in referring not only to themselves but to a larger cosmic order, comes into play."I. Dadi, Anwar Jalal Shemza, London, 2015
ANWAR JALAL SHEMZA (1928-1985)
Untitled (Head)
Details
ANWAR JALAL SHEMZA (1928-1985)
Untitled (Head)
signed and dated in Urdu (lower left)
pastel and gouache on paper
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1956
Untitled (Head)
signed and dated in Urdu (lower left)
pastel and gouache on paper
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1956
Provenance
Acquired in Karachi, circa late 1950s
Private Collection, Australia
Acquired from the above by present owner
Private Collection, Australia
Acquired from the above by present owner