Jamil Naqsh hospitalised in London
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KARACHI: Eminent artist Jamil Naqsh is in critical condition, his daughter told Dawn on Tuesday.
The painter was admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in London on May 7. He has been infected with “serious pneumonia” and doctors are not optimistic about his recovery.
Naqsh belongs to that generation of artists (Sadequain, Bashir Mirza, Ahmed Pervez, etc) which gave a direction to Pakistani art after the country’s inception.
For a brief period in the 1950s he joined the National College of Arts in Lahore, but left it arguing that he wanted to gain experience as an art practitioner. He has been living in London for a decade.
Published in Dawn, May 15th, 2019
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May 15, 2019 10:25am
We pray for his quick recovery.
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May 15, 2019 12:47pm
@Zak, pneomonia, if treated early, can mostly be cured.
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May 15, 2019 06:17pm
A great artist and one of the few internationally acclaimed Pakistani ones. Wishing him a speedy recovery.I once asked him why there was many times a woman and a dove in his paintings. His answer: Do you know anything more beautiful than these two.
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May 16, 2019 01:32am
@Ahmed, Well all his work has beauty. His Islamic calligraphy is beautiful and his mural work too
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May 16, 2019 05:50am
I wish him fast recovery from pneomonia,
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