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 – coffee table magnum opus is the crown jewel among the more than one dozen books published, or to be published in future, by the SADEQUAIN Foundation.

This book is also a cry for help. The Saga of Sadequain is an SOS signal; it is a distress call, a Mayday if you will. You see, Sadequain unwittingly gave away, or in many instances, simply lost a vast majority of his work. He presumed, in most cases, that if he gave away his work, it would somehow preserve his legacy. Now we know his assumption bordered on misplaced trust. As a result, no catalog exists that preserves even a fraction of his work.

It is hoped that this book provides a collection of Sadequain’s work that has mostly remained unknown to the world so far, and allows the reader to glance at a sample of the most extraordinary pieces of artwork produced by Sadequain in a burst of creative ecstasy over his lifetime.

The Saga of SADEQUAIN, Volume I – Biography provides factual material that may influence a reader’s bias or alter his perceptions about Sadequain and his work. The focus of this volume is on the anecdotes, facts, impressions, lifestyle, and personal experiences based upon intimate knowledge about Sadequain and his life. It is an attempt to explore his life from childhood, through the adolescence years, his emergence as a young artist and then his meteoric rise to stardom, tracing his journey through the maze of trials and tribulations until the final episode under the monumental ceiling mural at the Frere Hall. He died before he could finish the stupendous ceiling mural, a sign of exclamation, a divine gesture, and a reminder that Sadequain is not finished yet.

Most of the source material of this volume is based on personal experiences, family stories, newspaper and magazine articles and interviews with artists, writers, art historians and critics, and most importantly, five of Sadequain’s own manuscripts detailing his early life, his views on Indian Art, his travel log, his letters, and his prologue to the collection of his rubaiyyat.

This book is a humble attempt by the SADEQUAIN Foundation to preserve Sadequain’s legacy for generations to come.

The Saga of SADEQUAIN, Volume II – Galerie is the most authoritative, most comprehensive, and most definitive, The Saga of SADEQUAIN, a two-volumes-in-a-hard-case book is the result of 5 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 among the more than one dozen books published, or to be published in future, by the Foundation.

The Saga of SADEQUAIN, Volume II – Galerie is a celebration of the most intriguing and innovative work of a national icon, who crossed the traditional and predefined boundaries of artistic forms, norms, subjects, objects, shades, dimensions, and every other confinement that he deemed as an obstruction. In the process, he produced with abundance some of the most magnificent collections of artwork by any measure, rich in content, diverse in nature, grand in scale, and large in numbers.