Gulammohammed Sheikh

Magician and Mystic

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March 20, 05:04 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Very Important Private Collection

Gulammohammed Sheikh

b. 1937

Magician and Mystic

Gouache on arches paper

Signed and dated in Gujarati lower right

22 ¾ x 30 in. (57.8 x 76.2 cm.)

Executed in 1998

Christie's Hong Kong, Southeast Asian and 20th Century Indian Pictures, 28 April 2002, lot 100

Kahat Kabir, Gouaches by Gulammohammed Sheikh, exhibition catalogue, Vadehra Art Gallery, 1998

New Delhi, Vadehra Art Gallery, Kahat Kabir, Gouaches by Gulammohammed Sheikh, 25 December 1998 - 5 January 1999

"I have admired Kabir since my school days, and for many reasons. For one thing, Kabir always spoke of the individual: tera sain tujh mein hai, jag sake to jag / your preceptor is within you, awake to see him... Yet his life and words represent pluralities. There was no one religion, or one system or one belief or one idea, but multiple systems, multiple beliefs, multiple religions and multiple ideas."

- Gulammohammed Sheikh

('Imagining Kabir: Art & Conversations with Gulammohammed Sheikh', Stories, http://ajabshahar.com/stories/details/9/Imagining-Kabir)

Gulammohammed Sheikh found an enduring source of inspiration in the writings of Kabir, the 15^th century poet-saint. With lyrical combinations of shape and color, the present gouache work is imbued with a mysticism directly informed by the stories and messages of Sheikh's great muse.

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