01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #15

Jamil Naqsh, (1939 – 2019)

Al-Haqq/ Truth, c. 2010-2013

Oil on canvas

10 × 12 in, 25.4 × 30.5 cm

Private collection

Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual.

Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British India in 1939, and later moved to Karachi, Pakistan. In his early teens, he had the experience of travelling alone through Chittagong, Calcutta and Colombo. He learned a lot about life during that harsh journey. He also gained a great respect for the art traditions of the past while travelling. This journey's impressions later influenced his thinking and work.

Naqsh trained as a miniaturist under former National College of Arts professor Ustaad Haji Sharif in Lahore beginning in 1953. He left the National College of Arts without completing his degree as he felt it was the experience not the qualification that was important. He left Pakistan in 2012 and settled in London, United Kingdom.

On 7 May 2019, due to pneumonia, Naqsh was admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in London, where he died nine days later at the age of 79. More on Jamil Naqsh

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #14

Rokni Haerizadeh, b. 1978, Iranian

UNTITLED, c. 2006

Acrylic on canvas

149 by 200cm.; 58⅝ by 78¾in.

Private collection

Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978) is an Iranian artist living and working in Dubai. He participated in the Carnegie International in 2013.

With wit and irony, Rokni Haerizadeh’s exuberant paintings, works on paper, and stop-motion animations incorporate a prodigious range of visual tropes and influences to address contemporary politics in his native Iran and beyond. In But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise (2014–15), he paints over printed stills from YouTube videos and television news broadcasts to create humorous subversions infused with melancholia and critique. Haerizadeh’s works are held in public and private collections, including those of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; British Museum, London; Tate Modern, London; and Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India. He also maintains a collaborative practice with his brother Ramin Haerizadeh and childhood friend Hesam Rahmanian. More on Rokni Haerizadeh

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #13

Willy Aractingi, 1930 - 2003, Lebanese

UNTITLED, c. 1985

Acrylic on canvas

73 by 92cm.; 28¾ by 36¼in.

Private collection

Willy Aractingi, (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was born in New York in 1930, Aractingi was raised in Cairo, studied in Grasse, before finally settling in Beirut in the late 1940s.

Aractingi undertook painting at a very young age. His works are often differentiated by his use of unique colour gradations, bold pigments and recurring use of nature. 

Aractingi’s greatest artistic achievement was painting Jean de la Fontaine's (French, 1621 - 1695) entire collection of 244 fables on individual canvases. He embarked on this mamoth project titled Magnum Opus in January 1989, whilst residing in France. Seven years and 244 canvases later, he completed the ambitious project in 1995 on the 300th anniversary of De La Fontaine’s death. 

Aractingi's works are extensively inspired by fictional stories and fables. He generously provides his audience a gateway into the creases of a fantasy world inhabited by folk creatures and copious animals; all brought to life using his vivid brushstrokes.  He continued to paint insistently up until his death in 2003; depicting Antar and Abla, Geha, Tarzan, Adam and Eve, and a plethora of animals throughout his oeuvre.  Following his death, the artist's family estate donated 230 of his works to the Sursock Museum in Beirut. In 2017, the museum mounted a retrospective curated by Yasmine Chemali who gathered some 120 works under the title Les Mondes de Willy Aractingi. Sotheby's is privileged to be offering this important and rare work from the estate of the artist. More on Willy Aractingi

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #11

Ali Banisadr , b. 1976, Iranian

STARDUST, c. 2011

Oil on linen

137.6 by 182.7cm.; 54¼ by 72in

Private collection

Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art's Top 100 Artists of 2011

Originally, from Tehran Banisadr moved with his family when he was twelve to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, and for a Master of Fine Aarts at the New York Academy of Art.

According to an interview with The Met, New York Banisadr states he is influenced by his childhood memories of growing up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war and the Islamic Revolution. He compares his work to Hieronymus Bosch and other figurative artists, whose work revolve around dynamism and conflict . Banisadr states he experiences the neurological condition synthesia, which greatly affects his paintings, imbuing a sense of sound and vitriol. More on Ali Banisadr

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