Samples & Related Artists

Zarina Hashmi

Zarina Hashmi (1937 - 2020) was active/lived in New York / India.  Zarina Hashmi is known for Non-figurative drawing, spatial geometry, woodblock prints and calligraphy.

"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020.

Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India.

Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned the history of her peripatetic life into an emotional and spiritual guide composed of spare images, poetic words and subtle politics, died on April 25 in London. She was 82.

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said Imran Chishti, her nephew.

Ms. Hashmi, who preferred to identify herself professionally by only her first name, became internationally known for woodcuts and intaglio prints, many combining semi-abstract images of houses and cities she had lived in accompanied by inscriptions written in Urdu, a language spoken primarily by Muslim South Asians. (It is the official national language of Pakistan.)

In South Asia itself, she is   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8603 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 66 auction lots for Zarina Hashmi (of which 54 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Zarina Hashmi as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Zarina Hashmi in 0 of its research Essays. Zarina Hashmi has 0 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Zarina Hashmi available:    Vasudeo S Gaitonde,  Syed Haider Raza,  Ismail Gulgee,  Mohan (Manmohan Balkrishna) Samant,  B Prabha,  Jamini Roy,  Nalini Malani,  Gulam Rasool Santosh,  Jagdish Swaminathan,  Bikash Bhattacharjee,  Maqbool Fida Husain,  Rameshwar Broota,  Sadanand K Bakre,  Francis Newton (FN) Souza,  Alwar Balasubramaniam,  Paramjit Singh,  Bhupen Khakar,  Aisha Khalid,  Ustad Allah Bux,  Akbar Padamsee,  Nilima Sheikh,  Abdur Rahman Chughtai,  Krishen Khanna,  Biren De