ZARINA (1937-2020)
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ZARINA (1937-2020)

Rani's House (Letter VI) and Last Letter (Letter VIII) (from Letters from Home); Travels with Rani I; Home (from Home is a Foreign Place)

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ZARINA (1937-2020)
Rani's House (Letter VI) and Last Letter (Letter VIII) (from Letters from Home); Travels with Rani I; Home (from Home is a Foreign Place)
signed, dated, titled and inscribed as illustrated
intaglio on Arches Cover buff paper; woodcut and metalcut on handmade kozo paper mounted on Somerset paper
3 7/8 x 5 3/8 in. (9.8 x 13.6 cm.) (plate); 13 x 9¾ in. (33 x 24.8 cm.) (sheet) smallest
14 7/8 x 13 in. (37.8 x 33 cm.) (plate); 24¼ x 19 7/8 in. (61.6 x 50.5 cm.) (sheet) largest
Executed in 2004, 2008, 1999; artist's impressions; four prints on paper
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to the present owner
Literature
Home (from Home is a Foreign Place), 1999

Zarina: Mapping a Life, 1991-2001, exhibition catalogue, Oakland, 4 November – 21 December, 2001 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)
Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, exhibition catalogue, Mumbai, 2007 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)
Expansion: Resonance, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2008 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)
R. Hoskote, Everyone Agrees: It's About to Explode, Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Venice, 2011 (another edition illustrated, unpaginated)
A. Pesenti, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2012, pp. 106, 107, 150 (another edition illustrated)
C. Knight, 'Zarina Hashmi imprints herself in paper', Los Angeles Times, 21 November, 2012 (another edition illustrated)
G. Sen, 'Your History Gats in the Way of My Memory,' Essays on Indian Artists, Noida, 2012, p. 148 (another edition illustrated)
U. Prakash, 'A World of Loss And Displacement', Asian Art News, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2014, p. 70 (another edition illustrated)
Memory and Identity, Indian Artists Abroad, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 2016, pp. 97, 426 (another edition illustrated)
Altered Inheritances: Home Is a Foreign Place, exhibition catalogue, Dubai, 2019, p.2 (another edition illustrated)
Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Far From Home’, Artforum, Vol. 58, No. 1, September 2019 (another edition illustrated)
M. Vali, ‘With Paper, Zarina Opens a Window onto the Cosmos’, frieze magazine, Issue 208, January-February 2020 (another edition illustrated)
S. Anderson et al, ‘Remembering Zarina, 1937–2020’, MoMA Magazine online, 30 April 2020 (another edition illustrated)
A. Sroha, ‘Home and Migration in the Artworks of Zarina Hashmi’, Daily Art Magazine online, 1 July 2020 (another edition illustrated)
H.G. Masters, ‘Memories of Zarina Hashmi’, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 119, July-August 2020 (another edition illustrated)

Rani's House (Letter VI) and Last Letter (Letter VIII) (from Letters from Home)

Zarina: Counting 1977-2005, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2005 (other editions illustrated, unpaginated)
Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, exhibition catalogue, Mumbai, 2007 (other editions illustrated, unpaginated)
S.S. Patel, ‘Zarina: Edges of Her World’, Art Asia Pacific, No. 54, July-August 2007, p. 75 (one from another edition illustrated)
Home Spun, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 32, 34 (other editions illustrated)
I. Dadi and H. Nassar, Lines of Control, Partition as a Productive Space, 2012, p. 171 (one from another edition illustrated)
A. Pesenti, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Los Angeles, 2012, p. 137 (other editions illustrated)
Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Far From Home’, Artforum, Vol. 58, No. 1, September 2019 (other editions illustrated, unpaginated)
Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020): An artist whose work is woven with ideas of displacement and mobility’, Scroll online, 29 April 2020 (other editions illustrated)
U. Nair, ‘Remembering the polymath Zarina Hashmi, one of the few Indian women artists of her time’, Architectural Digest India online, 16 July 2020 (other editions illustrated)
H. Cotter, ‘Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82’, New York Times, 5 May 2020 (other editions illustrated)
A. Sroha, ‘Home and Migration in the Artworks of Zarina Hashmi’, Daily Art Magazine online, 1 July 2020 (other editions illustrated)

Travels with Rani I

Zarina Hashmi, Noor, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2011, pp. 38, 82 (another edition illustrated)
I. Dadi and H. Nassar, Lines of Control, partition as a productive space, 2012, p. 171 (another edition illustrated)
A. Pesenti, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Los Angeles, 2012, p. 144 (another edition illustrated)
C.A. Stewart, ‘Seven Questions for Zarina Hashmi’, Ruminations, Metropolitan Museum website, 9 February 2017 (another edition illustrated)
V.F. Zamindar, ‘Zarina’s ‘Dark Roads’: Exile, Statelessness and the Tenacity of Nostalgia’, Third Text Online, 28 November 2018 (another edition illustrated)
Z. Jumabhoy, ‘Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020): An artist whose work is woven with ideas of displacement and mobility’, Scroll online, 29 April 2020 (another edition illustrated)
S. Kalidas, ‘The Burning Purity of Zarina Hashmi’, The Wire online, 29 April 2020 (another edition illustrated)
Exhibited
Home (from Home is a Foreign Place), 1999

New York, Admit One; New Delhi, Gallery Espace; Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Home is a Foreign Place, 2000 (another from the edition)
Oakland, Mills College Art Museum, Zarina: Mapping a Life, 1991-2001, 2001 (another from the edition)
Madison, Korn Gallery at Drew University, Home is a Foreign Place, 2002 (another from the edition)
Mumbai, The Guild Art Gallery, Zarina Hashmi: Home is a Foreign Place, 13 June-2 July, 2005 (another from the edition)
Mumbai, Bodhi Art, Zarina: Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, 2007 (another from the edition)
Paris, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Expansion: Resonance, 2008 (another from the edition)
New York, Luhring Augustine, The Ten Thousand Things, 2009 (another from the edition)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, 5 May-16 August, 2010 (another from the edition)
Venice, Venice Biennale, India Pavillion, 2011 (another from the edition)
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, September 2012 - September 2013 (another from the edition)
Shanghai, Rockbund Art Museum, Advance through Retreat, 10 May - 3 August, 2014 (another from the edition)
Dubai, Ishara Art Foundation, Altered Inheritances: Home Is a Foreign Place, 18 March – 13 July, 2019 (another from the edition)
St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Zarina: Atlas of Her World, 6 September 2019 – 2 February 2020 (another from the edition)
Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums, ‘Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art’, 6 September 2019 – 5 January 2020 (another from the edition)
New York, Metropolitan Museum, Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, 23 November 2019 – 12 March 2020 (another from the edition)

Rani's House (Letter VI) and Last Letter (Letter VIII) (from Letters from Home)

New York, Bose Pacia, Zarina: Counting 1977-2005, 10 November - 22 December 2005 (another edition)
Mumbai, Bodhi Art, Zarina Weaving Memory, 1990-2006, 2007 (another edition)
New Delhi, Devi Art Foundation, Home Spun, 27 August - 27 December 2011 (another edition)
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, 21 January - 1 April 2012 (another edition)
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Zarina: Paper Like Skin, September 2012 – September 2013 (another edition)


Travels with Rani I

Paris, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Zarina Hashmi, Noor, 26 March – 21 May, 2011 (another edition)
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, 21 January - 1 April 2012 (another edition)
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Zarina: Paper Like Skin, September 2012 – September 2013 (another edition)

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