Ismail Gulgee is an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar on October 25, 1926. He is a qualified engineer in the USA and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. Before 1959, as portraitist, he painted the entire Afghan Royal Family. From about 1960 on, he is noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American "action painting" idiom. Wikipedia
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