Islamabad—Pakistan’s prominent painter and sculptor Ismail Guljee was remembered on Friday on his fourth death anniversary.
Ismail Gulgee was born on October 25, 1926 in Peshawar. He began painting while training as an engineer in the USA, Columbia and Harvard universities, and held his first exhibition in 1950, private channel reported.
He was awarded Pride of Performance, Sitara- e-Imtiaz and Hilal-e-Imtiaz.
He continued to paint while he was secretary at the Pakistan Embassy at Ottawa during the 1950s, developing a reputation for portraiture.
In 1957 he was commissioned to paint the portrait of King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan and in 1959 he held an exhibition of 151 paintings and sketches in Kabul. He also painted portraits of Prince Karim Aga Khan, Zhou Enlai, Queen Farah Diba of Iran and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan.
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