EQBAL MEHDI IS DEAD
PAKISTAN AND THE ART WORLD LOST A VERY TALENTED ARTIST
HE WAS AN ARTIST OF EXTRAORDINARY TALENT
I GOT A CHANCE TO LEARN A LOT FROM HIM DURING 1980S
I WOULD LIKE ALL HIS WELLWISHERS TO PENDOWN THEIR
OPINIONS ABOUT EQBAL MEHDI HERE
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Inaa lillahi wa inna ilahi Rajeoon.
He was a great artist. Thanks for opening this thread Ahmet
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i first eqbal mehdi back in 1984, when one of my new friends introduced me to him.
I used to sketch, mostly portraits, in pencil. Then i had recently started penwork.
My friend took one of my penwork portrait, of Samiullah (hockey star of those days),
and showed it to eqbal mehdi, and asked him if i could come and see him working.
He agreed.
Although, very busy in my office work, where i had had to work late mostly, i used to
visit eqbal mehdi, every now and then, whensoever i could get some time.
He always asked me to observe him working, which i always did.
Our this somewhat formal, somewhat informal meeting started when he was using
a room as his studio, near jilani manzil, in nazimabad. I used to live in nazimabad number3, which was not too very far. So i could visit him usually on weekends.
But later on, when he shifted to another house, near the Shipowner college, i could not
visit him with that frequency.
Later on in 1991 i left Pakistan for good, and could not meet eqbal mehdi anymore.
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i have opened two groups in yahoo, in the memory of eqbal mehdi
their titles are EQBALMEHDI and the other one is
EQBALMEHDINAZIMABAD
Please contribute his paintings and opinions about him over there too.