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Property from a private collection, Sweden.
'He was simply passionate about painting; his mentor was our teacher Khalid Iqbal. Even though his profession was that of a chartered accountant, he thought it would be good idea to spend a year here. But even after that he went back to his profession. Still he continued to paint avidly and was dedicated to it...So many of his paintings were just given away... Once he painted the entire outside portion of an old house that belonged to Tahira Mazhar Ali, from every angle. He gave away the entire proceeds of that exhibition to the Citizen Foundation schools.' (Xari Jalil, https://www.dawn.com/news/1575157, 19th August 2020)
Jalal was largely a self taught painter, who painted for leisure. An accountant by trade, he was inspired by Khalid Iqbal, a Pakistani painter and art teacher, known for his landscape paintings. Untitled (Bedian landscape), may have been painted en plein air, something Jalal was known to have done. Bedian is a village in the Kasur District of Punjab, Pakistan close to the India-Pakistan border and was founded by Baba Sahib Singh Bedi during the reign of Maharajah Ranjit Singh. Other works that he painted include Charar Marsh Jinnah Gardens and Gurudwara Dera Chal, from 1985, 1989 and 1995 respectively.
To see a similar work sold at Sotheby's see Contemporary Indian and South Asian Paintings, 17th June, 1998, lot 24.