Title: Queens of Deck
Medium : Oil on Canvas
Size : 76 x 106 cm
Dated : 2008
Signature : Signed lower left and dated (Also signed on reverse )
Exhibitions :Essex Art Gallery
Provenance :
Private Collection UK
Mehtab Ali b1960
Mehtab Ali is one of the finest figurative artists in Pakistan. He works with pen ˜n ink, charcoal, pastel, oil and water while specializing in landscape, still life, abstract, calligraphy, portraits, figurative and cultural paintings. The artist is a Science Graduate from the University of Karachi and has worked as a director of the Fine Department, œOur Future World Institute of Japanese Language. He has painted multiple masterpieces among which is the portrait of œQuaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan. The portrait is 10 feet long in size that is displayed in the Sindh Assembly behind the speaker's seat.
Mehtab Ali grew up in the area of Liaquatabad, Karachi. He is a self-taught artist passionately painting since the age of eight years. He was inspired by the Alif Laila digest. The artist made a sketch and made efforts for the publication of the sketch for the digest but they rejected his artwork for three years. However, he stood firm and made every possible effort to begin his journey in this field.
