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Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)

Homes I made / a life in 9 lines



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 71 of 160  

24 HOUR ONLINE AUCTION: WORKS ON PAPER
26-27 MARCH 2014

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Winning Bid
Rs 17,50,884
$29,676

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Zarina Hashmi
Homes I made / a life in 9 lines

a - i) Signed and dated in English (lower right)
1997
Chin Colle on handmade Nepalese paper

a - i) 13.5 x 12.5 in (34.2 x 31.7 cm)
j) 5 x 5 in (12.7 x 12.7 cm)

Second from a limited edition of twenty prints (each), and one uneditioned print

(Set of ten)

Title:
a) Planted a Garden of Roses from Aligarh: New Delhi 1961-1963
b) A Room of Four and a Half Tatami: Tokyo 1974
c) An Uncertain Time: Bonn 1971-1972
d) First Home: Bangkok 1958-1961
e) A Space to Hide Forever: New York 1976
f) Watched the Seine Flow by and Waited for Him to Come Home: Paris 1963-1967
g) A Room of my Own: New Delhi 1968-1974
h) Edge of Temporariness: Los Angeles 1975-1976
i) Horizontal Blue Line: Santa Cruz 1992-1997


Produced at the University of California


EXHIBITED & PUBLISHED:
Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1997
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, 2001
Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, 2007

EXHIBITED:
The Ten Thousand Things, Luhring Augustine, Paris, 2009

Category: Print Making
Style: Abstract


 









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