Lot 253: Ahmed Parvez, Pakistan 1926-1979- Diptych; oil on canvas, signed and dated '62,

Ahmed Parvez, Pakistan 1926-1979- Diptych; oil on canvas, signed and dated '62, 76x112cm

By the Pakistani artist Ahmed Parvez, 1926-1979. Ahmed Parvez was a self taught artist and member of the Lahore Group. In 1955-64 Parvez moved to London and founded the Pakistan Group. In 1962 the artist was part of a two man exhibition with Alexander Calder at the Lincoln Gallery. He had over 30 international solo exhibitions including New Vision Gallery, Clement Stevens Gallery, the London Commonwealth Museum and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The Oxford Mail reported of Parvez's work 'it takes an extremely clear vision or strong personality to impose such an individual character on an abstract or near abstract design. Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Jackson Pollock and R.J. Hitchcock are among the few that have it; so is Ahmed Parvez.' In 1978, Parvez received the President's Medal for Pride of Performance by the government of Pakistan; he died of a brain hemmorrage one year later.