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Lot 58

Ismail Gulgee (Pakistani, 1926-2007)
Untitled (Calligraphic)

25 October 2021, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Ismail Gulgee (Pakistani, 1926-2007)

Untitled (Calligraphic)
signed and dated '92 lower left
oil on canvas
59.5 x 44.5cm (23 7/16 x 17 1/2in).

Footnotes

"My work is the externalisation of my inner journey. Through it I communicate with the pulse of life. The calligraphic form and movement that emerges is not premeditated or cerebral, it is intuitive and articulates something deep inside me. It is important that no thought of how people will react to my work intrudes, as they would destroy the thread and take the truth away. I am enchanted by Islamic calligraphy and feel close to the Sufi mystics. At the mystic level, barriers melt away and religious experience whether Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim become one. One could call it human experience of the ineffable."

(Annemarie Schimmel in M. Ismaili, Gulgee, Ferozesons, 2000, unpaginated)

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