Art Basel 2026 | Gulammohammed Sheikh: Of Cities and Tongas
Features Section | Booth D2
Born in 1937 in Gujarat, Gulammohammed Sheikh is among India’s most celebrated post-modernists – an accomplished artist, poet and scholar. At the heart of Sheikh’s oeuvre is socially reactive narrative, growing out of a profound immersion in cultural histories, mythologies, artistic traditions and current events. Sheikh interweaves heritage with contemporary expression, voyaging between the personal and public, the past and present, and the near and distant to create saturated and visceral palimpsests that coalesce timelines, cultures, symbols and influences in their interpretation. His work nurtures an inherent curiosity about the world at large, to discover and decode it through motifs of knowledge and belief systems in the hopes of resolving the eternal philosophical conundrum of what constitutes reality.
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Horse 2 | घोड़ा २
Oil on canvas
27 x 36 in | 68.5 x 91.5 cm
1961–62
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Horses | घोड़े
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 in | 76 x 91.5 cm
1961–62
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Horse in the Forest | जंगल में घोड़ा
Oil on canvas
32 x 50 in | 81.5 x 127 cm
1962
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City 1 | शहर १
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 in
| 56 x 76 cm1961–62
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City 2 | शहर २
Gouache on paper
15 x 22 in
| 38 x 56 cm1961–62
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City 4 | शहर ४
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961–62
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City 5 | शहर ५
Gouache on paper
22 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961–62
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City 6 | शहर ६
Gouache on paper
22 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961–62
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Tongas 1 | ताँगे १
Gouache on paper
22 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961–62
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Tongas 2 | ताँगे २
Gouache on paper
15 x 22 in | 38 x 56 cm
1961–62
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Tongas in the City 1 | शहर में ताँगे १
Gouache on paper
22 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961–62
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Tongas in a City 2 | शहर में ताँगे २
Gouache on paper
15 x 22 in | 38 x 56 cm
1961–62
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Tongas in the City 3 | शहर में ताँगे ३
Gouache on paper
30 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm
1961–62
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City Drowned | पानी में डूबा शहर
Gouache on paper
17 x 23 in | 43 x 58.5 cm
1961–62
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Horses and Arches | घोड़े और मिहराबें
Gouache on paper
22 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961–62
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Tonga in City | शहर में ताँगा
Paper cut in Kite paper
25 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961
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Horse | घोड़ा
Paper cut in Kite paper
25 x 15 in | 56 x 38 cm
1961
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Sprouting Branches | अंकुरित डालियाँ
Pen and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Man and Horse | एक आदमी, एक घोड़ा
Pen and ink on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Two Figures Against a Tree | पेड़ के सामने दो आदमी
Pen, brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Human Figure and Horse | आदमी और घोड़े
Pen, brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Man Crouching by a Horse | घोड़ा और आदमी
Pen and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Entangled | उलझी आकृतियाँ
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Lone Horse | अकेला घोड़ा
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Dead Horse | मुर्दा घोड़ा
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Landscape | परिदृश्य
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Sunflower and a Horse | घोड़ा और सूर्यमुखी
Pen and ink on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Man and a Horse | आदमी और घोड़ा
Pen, brush and ink on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Man and Sun | आदमी और सूरज
Pen, ink and enamel paint on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Man in a Landscape | आदमी परिदृश्य में
Pen and ink on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Two Figures | दो आकृतियाँ
Pen and ink on paper
14 x 20 in | 35.5 x 51 cm
1961
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Horses | घोड़े
Pen, brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Explosion | विस्फोट
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Emergent Figure | प्रकट होती हुई आकृति
Brush and ink on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
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Figures | आकृतियाँ
Charcoal on paper
22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm
1961
