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Most authoritative, most comprehensive, and most definitive, The Saga of SADEQUAIN, a two-volumes-in-a-hard-case book represents five years of exhaustive research on Sadequain’s life and to locate Sadequain’s work scattered around the world. The two volumes of the book, over 800 pages, over 500 pieces of artwork – many done while Sadequain was residing overseas – […]

The Saga of SADEQUAIN, a two-volumes-in-a-hard-case book is the result of five years of exhaustive research to locate Sadequain’s scattered work around the world. The two volumes of the book, over 800 pages, over 500 pieces of artwork – many done while Sadequain was residing overseas – coffee table magnum opus is the crown jewel […]

This book is the first of its kind, which presents a collection of Sadequain’s illustrations and interpretations based on the select poetry of Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz. The extraordinary collection of 53 illustrative paintings and two large murals by Sadequain included in this book represents a confluence of the most extraordinary talent of the art […]

This book, the first of its kind about Sadequain, presents a collection of his calligraphic masterpieces. It also provides insight into Sadequain’s unique and unconventional lifestyle. Sadequain is the most written and talked about artist of Pakistan. Many writers and critics have expressed their opinions, praises, critiques, interpretations, and suppositions about his work. One common […]

This book is a remarkable achievement. An incredible scenario. How did Sadequain manage to impress the French jury to select him for the coveted assignment of pictorially interpreting the most famous novel, titled L’ Étranger (The Stranger), written by the French Nobel Laureate, Albert Camus? France is a nation known to have more artists per square […]

In an interview Sadequain was asked by the insinuating reporter why he was attracted to the powerful and traced the way to corridors of powers. Sadequain’s curt response was that he was never attracted to the corridors of power and on the contrary, it was the corridors of power which chased him. To prove Sadequain’s […]

By most estimates, Sadequain executed more than 15,000 pieces of artwork in his life — murals, paintings, drawings, and calligraphies. But he carelessly gave most of them away to institutions and individuals. In many cases, people walked away with significant numbers when they found Sadequain in high spirits, and often they were simply stolen as […]

The decade of the 1960s represents the most explosive period of Sadequain’s artistic genius, when he defined new idioms and developed his unique iconography while living in Paris, France. He invented new artistic forms, which, it can be argued, had not been explored before. Yet, this phase of Sadequain’s odyssey remains most elusive, because majority […]

It was a remarkable achievement. An incredible scenario. How did Sadequain manage to impress the French jury to select him for the coveted assignment of pictorially interpreting the most famous novel written by the French Nobel Laureate, Albert Camus? France is a nation known to have more artists per square mile than any other country. […]

This book, Holy Sinner and Lucifer Incarnate chronicles the crimes committed against Sadequain by the Pakistani Art Mafia and its frontman Sultan Naqvi. The night Sadequain passed away, and before he was buried later the same day, Art Mafia, aided by Sultan Naqvi, robbed 300 of Sadequain’s paintings from storage at Galerie SADEQUAIN in Frere […]

This book is based on real life facts and actual events as they unfolded during my struggle to resurrect artist, calligrapher, poet, philosopher, and philanthropist Sadequain from oblivion. A 700-page tale about greed, rapacity, thievery, and threats by the very custodians who were appointed to guard against the violations. It was a perfect case of […]

This book titled Reflections by SADEQUAIN provides a glimpse of Sadequain’s views about himself and his work in his own words. In Pakistan, Sadequain is the most talked about and most written-about artist. But most of the written material or spoken words about him are mundane and lacking in scholastic depth and contrary to what […]

This book Encyclopedia of SADEQUAIN Fakes Volume II – Fakes by Salima Hashmi provides evidence that Salima Hashmi is an integral part of Pakistani Art Mafia, the mastermind behind the sales of Sadequain-Fake-Bazaar through the primary conduit of international auction house BONHAMS, and has victimized dozens of unsuspecting buyers, including the National Museum of Qatar.

This book by SADEQUAIN Foundation titled Collection of Drawings – SADEQUAIN 1970 contains some of the most important drawings by Sadequain which demonstrate his masterful skill as an artist, flight of his imagination, and depth of his intellect.In technical terms the drawings in this book display the unity of disciplines of drawing, calligraphy as well […]

This book by SADEQUAIN Foundation titled Drawings – Exquise et Profonde par SADEQUAIN consists of a series of titillating drawings accompanied by equally tantalizing quatrains that Sadequain did strictly for private consumption. These private drawings were never meant to be publicized because of their sensitive subject matter. If this was not true then he would […]

This book by SADEQUAIN Foundation titled Figurations Mystique by SADEQUAIN contains some of the most important drawings by Sadequain which demonstrate his masterful skill as an artist, flight of his imagination, and depth of his intellect.In technical terms the drawings in this book display the unity of disciplines of drawing, calligraphy as well as the […]

This book translates Sadequain’s intellectual discourse worthy of coining its own domain: SADEQUAIN-ISM. Sadequain was not an ordinary talent. He was a genius, a polymath, the likes of him are born in centuries. His painterly genius knew no limits, he revolutionized the craft of calligraphy into calligraphic art, and he was recognized by the international […]

This book SADEQUAIN-ISM 201 consists of English translation of Sadequain’s writings and poetry in Urdu language. It represents Sadequain’s philosophy on the meaning of life, mankind, man’s purpose on earth, value of work, and value of man’s character. Sadequain’s philosophy can best be summed up by his own quotation, “People ask why I don’t paint […]

From the Sketchbook of SADEQUAIN is a collection of drawings. In technical terms the drawings in this book display the unity of disciplines of drawing, calligraphy as well as the traditions of Urdu and Persian poetry which Sadequain shared to his core. Most importantly, the drawings in this book show how Sadequain’s lines, whether complex […]

International auction house BONHAMS has sold over three dozen SADEQUAIN fakes worth over US$ 2.5 million. BONHAMS’ conduct in selling counterfeit Sadequain Artwork has caused an irreparable harm to Sadequain’s reputation by attributing substandard artworks to Sadequain which has resulted in the decline of the market value of Sadequain’s original Artwork.