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Zainul's work sold at Christie's auction
In a recent auction of Christie's New York held on March 20'* featuring South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art a work of Zainul Abedin was sold. The artwork originally belonged to the collection of the late Mr. Joseph S. Farland who served as an Ambassador of the United States to Pakistan from 1969 to 1972. The piece was in the possession of a private collector from Virginia before auctioned at Christie's.
Works of M. F. Husain, Jamini Roy. Syed Haider Raza, F. N. Souza, Akbar Padmasee, iyeb Mehta, Ganesh Pyne and Atul Dodiya were also sold in the sarge event.
According to Christie's press release Zainul's work was in ink and pastel media on paper and executed in 1967 in dimension of22x32.5 inches is a sketch of human bodies with a faint line of white on them suggesting the skeleton inside the fragile bodies.
To introduce the artist's work Christie's mentioned "Zainul Abedin (19141976) throughout his work and teaching sought to synthesize local traditions with modern international techniques in art, thus creating a new Bengali modernism".
The work was probably collected by the
then US ambassador to Pakistan when Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin served as honorary art Adviser to the Pakistan Government for television, films and publications during 1968-1970. The artist was mostly stationed in Karachi during those two years.
As the independence movement for Bangladesh gained momentum, Zainul publicly renounced the civic honours he had received from Pakistan at a mass rally called by Maulana Bhashani in February 1971. On 12* March, Zainul led a procession organised by the artist's revolutionary council (Charu O Karn Sangram Parishad) and at a rally at Bhadur Shah Park and declared that the Bengalis had no alternative but to a struggle for independence.
Zainul Abedin is without doubt the foremost talent in the history of Bangladesh art. During '70s. a 64 feet long scroll painting "Nabanna" containing a panorama of our village life and a 30 feet scroll painting depicting the devastating cyclone were one of the remarkable works olihe artist.
His extraordinary abilities were appar-
ent from his student days and won him all India fame soon after he finished his studies. His Famine sketches created between 1943-44 spread his fame to distant Europe. His quality as a teacher, an administrator, an organiser reflected his contribution to
the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka and the Sonargaon Folk Art Foundation that will remain as alasting testimony
Compiled by Durjoy Rahman Joy