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Figure. 21:
Title: UNTITLED
(Famine Series - Mother and Boy) Artist: Zainul Abedin
Medium: Ink on Paper
Signed: In English.
Lower right. Dated 1953
Size: 55 X 38.2 cms.
Acquired: 2013
This painting from my collection was consigned to a sale at the Schuler Auktionen in Zurich in 2017. The words below are from the catalog entry.
Probably the most impressive works by Abedin were those from the "Famine Series". In this series he drew people dying of hunger on the roadside. He documented the famine from its dark side with skeletal figures that looked death in the eye. In this way he was able to express the inhumane history of his country with human emotions. This also strengthened the specially made ink from burned charcoal with which he painted on simple wrapping paper.
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