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Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)

Behind the Fence



Born in Aligarh in 1937, Zarina Hashmi received a B.Sc. degree with honours from the city’s Muslim University in 1958 before she turned to the study of printmaking in India and then abroad. Between 1963 and 67 she studied printmaking with S. W. Hayter and Krishna Reddy at Atelier 17 in Paris, and in 1974 studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshido’s studio in Tokyo on a Japan Foundation Fellowship.

Hashmi has always engaged with the...



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  Lot 78 of 78  

EVENING SALE: MODERN ART
16 SEPTEMBER 2023

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Winning Bid
Rs 16,80,000
$20,241

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Zarina Hashmi
Behind the Fence

Signed and dated 'Zarina 2017' (lower right), inscribed 'Behind the Fence' (lower centre) and further inscribed '2/15' (lower left)
2017
Woodcut on BFK light paper mounted on Arches Black paper pasted on mount board
9.25 x 9.25 in (23.8 x 23.8 cm)

Second from a limited edition of fifteen

PROVENANCE
Gifted by the artist to a friend
Acquired from the above

EXHIBITED
Zarina: Weaving Darkness and Silence, New Delhi: Gallery Espace, 2 February - 3 March 2018 (another from the edition)
Raza and His Contemporaries, New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 6 February - 10 March 2023

PUBLISHED
Sadia Shirazi, "A Room of One's Own: Zarina," Zarina: Weaving Darkness and Silence, New Delhi: Gallery Espace, 2018 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Raza and His Contemporaries, New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 2023, p. 59 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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