ISLAMABAD, Nov. 7: The realist painter of the people and prominent artist Imtiaz Husain died of cardiac arrest at Pims on Tuesday morning. He was 64.
He belonged to Peshawar and was born there in 1942.
A graduate of the National College of Arts, Imtiaz came to prominence by winning four times the S.S. Hyder Award. He was equally at ease with painting landscapes, and his painting of a cow shed was adjudged the best in a group exhibition at Peshawar in 1991.—JI