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Lot No. 65

ZARINA HASHMI
1937-2020

STEPS (ED: 4/7)
22.5 x 28.5 x 1.5 in (57 x 72.3 x 3.81 cm)
Cast paper with black pigment and aluminum powder

` 30,00,000 - 40,00,000 | $ 36,585 - 48,780

Provenance: Property from a collection based in
Mumbai. Artwork was acquired by the present owner
from Bodhi Art Gallery.

Zarina Hashmi was an Indian-American artist
born in 1937, in Aligarh. Zarina graduated with
a BS (Honours) degree in mathematics from the
Aligarh Muslim University in 1958. She studied
printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris, with S. W.
Hayter and Krishna Reddy. To further expand
her curiosity, Zarina got educated in woodblock
printing at Toshi Yoshido’s studio in Tokyo after
receiving the Japan Foundation Fellowship.

Hashmi mirrors her journey from different places
through her art by creating minimalistic visuals
infused with abstract and geometric styles. Themes
surrounding her art echo the longing for home,
identity, her travels, memories, distance, and exile.
Zarina was brought up in a loving and supportive
family while living in different places which naturally
became a subject in many of her works with the
influence of colonialism and existentialism, as
reflected in the artist’s creative vision.

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