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Career chronology
 Personal 1939 Born on December 25 in Kairana, Uttar Pradesh, India 1953 Studied Indian miniature painting with late Ustad Muhammad Sh...
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Crème de la crème
 This is not just another art exhibition. It is a comprehensive show which, in the words of co-curator Nasreen Askari, “needs to be taken in and savoured — returned to if necessary...
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Mounting a Retrospective
 This retrospective took nearly two years in the making, and has finally emerged in a mammoth outpouring of more than six hundred artworks meticulously arranged in chronological order with proper listings...
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A painters’ painter
 It is difficult to say whether or not he planned it that way, but over the years Jamil Naqsh did grow into what can be safely described as a painters’ painter. He had a style of his own...
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Saga of nudes and winged beauties
 A casual viewer might feel tempted to accuse Jamil Naqsh of repeating himself. For Jamil Naqsh has faithfully struck to his motifs — the nude and the pigeon — ever...
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The greening of Jamil Naqsh
 Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana on the bank of the River Jamuna in a family of Muslim landed gentry where, together with prayers and fasting, Persian and Urdu poetry, and...
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