SOHAN QADRI (1932-2011)

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON

SOHAN QADRI (1932-2011)
Untitled
signed and dated Qadri/05 (lower left)
mixed media, Ink and dye on paper laid on canvas
102 x 71 cm

PROVENANCE: Private collection, London

Qadri has been referred to as the 'pre-eminent aesthetic mystic of Modernism' by critic Donald Kuspit.

"When I start on a canvas," explains Qadri, "first I empty my mind of all images. They dissolve into a primordial space. Only emptiness, I feel, should communicate with the emptiness of the canvas," (Qadri rpt. Swati Chopra, "Tantrist-Sufi Who Paints with His Soul," Times of India, November 27, 2002).