Untitled

1981

Not on view

Rashid Choudhury was a pioneer of the modern art movement in Bangladesh. He trained at Dacca Art College, and then in Spain and France, where he began to work in tapestry. Choudhury returned to Bangladesh in 1964 to become the first full-time instructor of Fine Arts at Chittagong University. The artist’s visual language balances local and regional references with a more formal modernist aesthetic. His pieces convey a deeply visceral, rhythmic sensation that resonates with the work of Henri Matisse, but which developed from traditional imagery, in particular representations of female deities. His numerous public commissions include the tapestries in the Louis Kahn-designed Parliament building in Dhaka.

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Rashid Choudhury (Bangladeshi, 1932–1986)
Date: 1981
Medium: Hand-woven cotton tapestry
Dimensions: 60 × 35 1/2 in. (152.4 × 90.2 cm)
Classification: Textiles
Credit Line: Gift of Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani, 2018
Object Number: 2018.835
Rights and Reproduction: © Rajeeb Samdani
Gift of Nadia & Rajeeb Samdani
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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