Md Tokon (American-Bangladeshi, B.1980)Moonlight Lilies signed and dated 2021 versoacrylic on canvas, framed146.2 x 126cm (57 9/16 x 49 5/8in).Footnotes:Md Tokon spent the first half of his life in Bangladesh before relocating to the USA, where he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the City University of New York (2002-2006) and simultaneously enrolled at the Art Students League of New York (2005-2010). Noted alumni from the latter include Cy Twombly and Mark Rothko. Rothko's and the New York abstract expressionist's influence is evident in Md Tokon's works however Tokon's works also incorporate elements of Impressionism and Romanticism, as his works are predicated on colour, space, dark and light. The colours and themes employed in his works are a tribute to both the tonalities of Bangladesh and the long tradition of abstract art emanating from the country, specifically that of Mohammad Kibria.Tokon favours large canvasses, dramatic colour and loose brushwork, as evidenced by the 2 lots on offer in this auction. He has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Dhaka, and he is the recipient of the 2010 Richard Lillis Memorial Scholarship.'His paintings are direct; they do not hesitate. The paintings deliver their message reflecting nature, emotion, and passion; with intense aesthetic expression, through surface and color.' (Ronnie Landfield, New York)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Liaqat Rasul (British, B.1974)Envelop industrial plastic sheeting, cardboard, chunky felt tips, staples, tissue paper, wooden coffee stirrers, nylon net, staples, polypropylene plastic strapping, printed silk khadi, old shirt fabric, leather, grey board, packaging card, receipts, biro, rizzla paper, framed99 x 78.5cm (39 x 30 7/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Artist's Collection.Liaqat Rasul is a gay welsh dyslexic Pakistani male. He was born in Feb 1974 in Wrexham, North Wales. Liaqat studied fashion, gaining a first-class degree, specialising in textiles. He spent a year in industry, working and studying in New Delhi, India. Liberty's in Regent Street, London, bought his graduating collection, and he ran the business Ghulam Sakina for ten years, creating beautiful textile clothing. After Ghulam Sakina was liquidated in 2009, Liaqat decided to explore his life and career choices. He worked at the Roxy Beaujolais -run pub the Seven Stars, in Carey Street, while exploring art exhibitions and public art. A huge, heavy penny dropped in 2017, and Liaqat started making collages for friends. Small but vital art practice was initiated. Liaqat made a few pieces for commission, and in 2019 had his first-ever solo exhibition of eight pieces at the Tracey Neuls shop in Coal Drops Yard, London. The collage works are not a social or political statement; they are abstract and cartographic, made from old envelopes, stamped tickets, wooden coffee stirrers, misplaced printing on cardboard boxes, leftover yarn, swing tags, creased tissue papers, napkins, abandoned receipts, an old t-shirt chopped up, tatty found papers, packaging... marked with biros and felt-tip pens and stuck with PVA glue, sellotape on to card inserts and graphics on cardboard boxes left out in the street. Their bold, odd colours and real-world experiences create unique, buoyant collage tableaux.Making art is an act of hope. Liaqat invites the viewer to experience his low-tech, textured works, eyes darting about to take in the many elements, in their own time, meditatively, diverted from smartphones and the persistent digital world. Liaqat aims to create bigger and bolder collages and fibre works. Think tactile. Think analogue.He has been commissioned by Ty Pawb, Wrexham in North Wales, his place of birth to have his first solo exhibition in June 2024, which will then be on tour from Autumn 2024. He was part of the group show at Grosvenor Gallery, 'Patterns of the Past: Weaving Heritage in Pakistani Art' in the Summer of 2021, which was held in collaboration with Canvas Gallery, Karachi. The Crafts Council acquired a 3.5m tall portrait mobile and he has also been commissioned to work on a project with the elderly South Asian community in Gloucester, focussing on the migrant journey from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Mother-V printed Chinese signature upper left and signed and edition 16/100 versohand painted in silk screen203.5 x 101.5cm (80 1/8 x 39 15/16in).Footnotes:CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ARTISTSProvenanceArcher Graphic Studio, Ahmedabad. These works come from Husain's Chinese scroll series that he created between 2005-2009. They are a set of 29 large-scale serigraphs featuring two of his iconic themes, Mother Teresa and horses. Husain painted them, after which they were developed into silkscreens and were mounted onto black scrolls so that they could be hung like traditional Asian paintings. The series which included 18 and 11 prints of Mother Teresa and horses respectively, debuted as a complete collection in an exhibition that travelled to Dubai, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai.In this series, Husain is paying homage to both East Asian artists and Mother Teresa. It was in 1952 that Husain visited China and was struck by ancient Chinese pottery and paintings, in particular that of the Sung dynasty renderings of horses and by the works of Xu Beihong. The dramatic monochromatic lines had the deftness of certainty yet also the fluidity of motion. Husain remained fascinated with the subject throughout his life, his early encounter with a horse being in his childhood when he saw the procession to mourn and commemorate the Prophet's grandson, Husayn ibn Ali, when an effigy of Husayn ibn Ali's horse was carried through the streets. As Husain has best surmised 'My horses, like lightening, cut across many horizons, hop across spaces, from the battlefield of Kerbala to Bankura terracotta, from the Chinese Tse Pei Hung horse to St Marco's horse, from the ornate armoured Duldul to the challenging white of Ashvamedha...the cavalcade of my horse is multidimensional.' (M.F Husain, 1987)Husain's first encounter with Mother Teresa was in 1979, when he met her at Delhi airport. She left a deep impression on him and become one of his most famous protagonists. The theme of motherhood was close to Husain's heart having felt the absence of his own mother, who died whilst he was an infant. Mother Teresa therefore represents ideal motherhood, nourishment, empathy and strength, however she is always painted without a face, as if to represent all mothers. The children are often seen clinging to her arms and clothes, a closeness that Husain wished he had with his own mother.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Sayed Haider Raza (Indian, 1922-2016)Les Rochers signed and dated 'Raza 69' lower centre, further signed, dated, titled and inscribed Raza/P_782 '69/Les Rochers/10F and 'SHR-26' verso and 'YK520 CIN' on the stretcheroil on canvas54.7 x 46cm (21 9/16 x 18 1/8in).Footnotes:CELEBRATING SAYED HAIDER RAZA'S BIRTH CENTENARY AND 75 YEARS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ARTISTSProvenanceAcquired by the owner from Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris (acquired directly from the artist;Private Collection, France (acquired from the above)Christies, South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art,11th June 2012, lot 55.Acquired by the current owner from the above.LiteratureAnne Macklin (ed.), SH Raza, Catlogue Raisonné 1958-1971 (Volume I), Vadehra Art Gallery & he Raza Foundation, New Delhi, 2016, p. 173 (illustrated)A fascinating aspect of Raza's long career lies in how he evolved at least three different modes of abstraction – and their particular reflection on his own life and experiences.At the time of painting these small works, Raza was going through one of the most significant periods of his painterly career. His stint at the JJ school, the early years in Paris and his exposure the life of an artist in post war Europe was already behind him. This phase may well have started during the early 1960s, when he travelled to the University of California at Berkeley from France and experienced for the first time the works of Sam Francis, Mark Rothko and other leading American abstract expressionists, who lent their work the primacy of colour. Completely devoid of any structure, allowing for a fluid evocation of emotion, their work led Raza to move dramatically beyond the School of Paris influences that he had hitherto been exposed to. As he allowed himself greater painterly freedom in the unfolding decade of the sixties, Raza's work was to become more gestural, the brushwork looser, and the painterly affect that he sought more emotive. Yet nothing about this confluence of impressions was simple or direct. An artist of his time who responded spontaneously to the great wave of abstraction that swept the West in the 1950s and 60s, Raza also had nurtured a slew of memories that tied him inextricably with his homeland. As he describes it, the dense forests surrounding Mandla, a district in Madhya Pradesh where his father served as a forest officer were an overwhelming memory, of a sensorium of sounds, shadow and movement, unknown and mysterious to the young child. The weight of the night as it descended on the forest – innocent of electricity, as the villagers returned to their homes - was occasionally broken by the dances and singing of the Gond tribals by firelight, which etched deeply on his impressionable mind. Years later, as he engaged with a more liberated, and spontaneous mode of painting, Raza reverted to that childhood memory, making his works rich with an inchoate movement, and the irrepressible pulsation of life. There was also the memory of Kashmir, which Raza visited in 1947, its rich explosion of colours and its landscape, the subject of a wealth of miniature paintings.Les Rochers (1969)The two small paintings on view cohere in terms of Raza's treatment; whether these are preparatory works for larger canvases or complete in themselves, they bear the dynamism and energy of this phase. In the earlier work titled Les Rochers (1969) Raza allows a heavy overhang of darkness to seemingly merge with the large rock like forms, making one indistinguishable from the other. The sense of a looming darkness, kindled by embers of colour that seem to rise at the base of the work suggests the deepening of shadow over the landscape, like the closing in of the night.About this time Raza was to make a series of works drawing upon the rich tones of Rajasthani paintings – red, black, white and yellow—which not only drew from the burning sands of the Malwa region and the blazing sun of the desert but the passionate music of Rajputana, and the rich symbolism of Tantric painting. Here we have the first inklings of the Bhanu mandala, or the form of the blazing sun – black, or red, and its associative form, the bindu, in paintings like Terre Rouge (1968). There is also the preoccupation with darkness, the pitch black of the night which will be fractured or broken through with shards of colour, in paintings like Les Rocher (1969) and La Nuit (1971). It is remarkable that Raza's paintings, devoid of all living forms – other than the Naga, or the cosmic serpent which wraps around the circumference of the earth, invoke life through the sheer vitality of colour.What the energy and spirit of these works indicate is Raza's exploration of primordial elements that appear to mark the beginnings of creation. The first few verses of the Rig Veda (c.1750 BE) are dedicated to the five elements that imbue the life force. On the earth -to-sky painted surface, even in the smallest works, he engages the power and mystery of the elements, drawing them into a great, cosmic churn. Indian art had never dedicated itself entirely to the landscape, and Raza stands like a solitary figure, closer to the Romantic poets of the 18th and 19th centuries, to Rilke and Lawrence in the sweeping agonistes that he draws from nature.The GroundMind you are, ether you areAir you are, fire you areWater you are, Earth you areAnd you are the Universe, mother...Saundaryalahiri verse 28It is against this background, of a vibrant evocation of the primal forces of wind, ether, fire and water, that the question of the ground arises. On what premise, both conceptual and artistic, is Raza grounding his work? While the paintings of the late 1960s and 70s fall under the broad rubric of the landscape, there is very little of the recognizable elements of nature on view. Instead, Raza seems to depend entirely on the energy of his brush strokes, and the sheer magic of colour to invoke a sensorial effect, of the seasons and the intensity of an Indian summer. It is in the churning, and the unexpected appearance of the circle, the square or a suggestion of a triangle in such works, that Raza is also preparing the ground for another mode of abstraction. This would lead him further into a recessed visual space, not to the Vedic pronouncement on the Panchamahabhutas or primal elements, but to the yantra, and its geometric symbolism. Codified by Adi Shankara in the Saundaryalahiri,(c 8th century) the geometry of the yantra is loaded with the signification of life giving energies. In secularizing them into a highly evolved geometric abstraction, Raza creates a unique language, which abandons concepts of time and space to create their own ground – of metaphysical reading perhaps, but also sheer visual pleasure.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Madhvi Parekh (Indian, B. 1942)Last Supper signed and dated in Devanagiri 'Madhvi 2011' lower right and edition 20/60reverse serigraph in 17 colours on acrylic, framed181 x 100cm (71 1/4 x 39 3/8in).image size (in) 40 x 72Footnotes:ProvenanceArcher Graphic Studio, Ahmedabad.Often described as a 'folk' artist, Madhvi Parekh is recognised as a master and one of the most influential Modernist artists not only in South Asia, but also globally. Born in the village of Sanjaya, India in 1942, her journey in the art world began in the early 1960s, inspired by the work of her husband, Manu Parekh (B.1939), also a painter. The fact that she received her education during her first pregnancy deeply influenced her approach to the canvas. Her focus lies on the process of creation, rather than the result, which cannot be foreseen or known beforehand. Hence, her starting point is an idea, or better a feeling. She paints what she feels, without paying too much attention to critics and subsequent discussions of her work. Parekh creates art because she is drawn to it, regardless the external comments, the result, or the fame. It is the need to express herself, her story, and traditions.Undoubtedly, her personal background is visible in the subjects of her works, which often depicts the life in her village, festivities, and traditions, often through the perspective of a child. therefore, painting represents a sort of reminiscing and meditative process, where the artist's memories and the feelings she experienced during her childhood come to life. Her style represents the apparent simplicity of youth. Usually compared with Paul Klee (1879-1940) and Joan Miró (1893-1983), her technique consists of an instinctive and creative use of simple lines and shapes, such as triangles and squares. Parekh succeeds in combining flat surfaces, pictorial decorative elements of Indian art tradition together with a modern deconstruction of the forms and of the subject matter. Parekh unmistakable style jumps out of the canvas in her version of The Last Supper (2011). Her work represents an intelligent and original appropriation of Christianity most celebrated event, reinterpreted through a laic and modernist sensibility. Parekh's painting refers to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) homonymous work painted between 1495-1498. The basic structure of da Vinci's work is maintained. Even the apostles appear in the same poses and order. The composition of the background is also preserved, with the three windows that open on a generic city landscape. However, the lack of perspective and the reduced pictorial depth, the flat surface, and the geometric forms of the figures typical of Parekh and modernist style debunk the divine aura of the subject. In fact, although the iconography of this subject matter is universally known and recognisable, it is not part of Parekh's tradition. The fact that the artist does not identify herself as a Christian, together with Parekh's style turns this classic and sacred motif into a secular tale of friendship and betrayal, themes that are shared in many myths and legends across the globe. In this work, the artist succeeds in synthesizing cultural differences, shared topics, and her own responses to da Vinci's work in primis, and to this alien tradition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Ashok Bhowmick (Indian, B. 1953)Untitled (Lady with bird) signed and dated Ashok '03 lower rightmixed media on card, framed49.3 x 39.5cm (19 7/16 x 15 9/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAcquired from the late Mrs Sunita Jain in 2004, a friend of the vendor who acquired the work from the artist.Ashok Bhowmick is known for his cross-hatching Cubist technique as seen in the two works on offer in this auction. He has been painting since the mid 1970s, and has participated in group shows in India, Pakistan, Dubai, Barcelona, Sydney and New York. Earlier this year in June and July 2022, Bhowmick had his first major solo show in New Delhi in over 20 years, at India's oldest Gallery, Dhoomimal, titled 'Made in the Shade,' which included works from the last four decades of his career. The work titled, Bird seller 2, from that show resembles the work in this lot. (Gallerie Splash, Made in the Shade, 2022, pp. 69.)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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