Paintings

An exposure to Sadequain’s prodigious palette is a sight to behold. In a pure poetic Indo-Persian tradition, Sadequain employed powerful symbolism and metaphoric gestures in his paintings with abundance. He painted various series of paintings, each series rich with distinct creative idioms. Major body of his work can be categorized as Cactus Series, Mystic Figurations Series, Sun Series, Cobweb Series, Crow and Scarecrow Series, House of Cards Series, Sar-ba-Kuf Series, and Crucifixion Series, to name a few. His monumental murals exhibit sheer genius and his calligraphic work ushered in the renaissance of calligraphic art in Pakistan that cast him in a larger than life posture.