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Talha Rathore
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Talha Rathore
- Seeking, Seeping, Spreading VII; Pearls Without a Cloud IV
- Signed and dated in Urdu lower left
- Gouache, block print and paper collage on wasli
- 39 by 28.5 cm. (19 1/4 by 11 1/4 in.)
- Executed in 2007
Condition
These works are unframed, and in good condition, as viewed.
The catalogue illustration is accurate; although the overall tonality is a deeper maroon red in the original work and it is very vibrant with more contract in reality.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Talha Rathore’s practice of Neo-miniature painting explores the ambiguity and sense of displacement and isolation in her own life suspended between the two countries that serve as her birthplace and her adopted home: Pakistan and the United States. Rathore places elemental amoebic forms over Manhattan subway maps in a collage using traditional materials and the centuries-old technique of wasli paper-making. “My work evolves mainly from organic forms,” says Rathore, “in the shape of trees, plants, flowers, seeds, and sometimes bacteria and viruses, which represent life, growth and change.” In earthy tones of reds, beiges and blue, the works show seeds, pods and microscopic bacteria in singular, dual, triple and quadruple formations. Her works are a personal metaphor for her reality, a microcosm of beliefs with hopes, aspirations and fears of having a life straddling two cultures. (A. Ali, ‘Myriad Minutiae,’ Newsline, October 2011) Rathore graduated from the Miniature painting department at the National College of Arts, Lahore in 1995 and studied on a UNESCO bursary at the Sanskriti Akademi in New Delhi in 1997. Borrowing from the visual idioms of traditional 18th century Basholi, Guler and Kishangarh miniature paintings, Rathore’s images are strikingly contemporary and yet both personal as well as universal in its deeper significance about the meaning of a home vs. homeland.