Speechless City by Gulammohammed Sheikh, (1975) 122 cm x 122 cm, Oil on Canvas

The painter, poet and critic Gulammohammed Sheikh (born 1937) is one of the leading lights of Indian modern art.

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In the early 1960s he was a part of the short-lived but influential ‘Group 1890,’ twelve artists whose works went a long way towards developing a distinctly Indian language of modernism. Sheikh painted the oil-on-canvas work,