Srinagar, Jan. 17 -- Born on 25 October 1926 at Karimpura locality in Peshawar, Pakistan, Gulgee went to Lawrence College Murree before entering Aligarh University in India for civil engineering. He continued his engineering studies at Columbia and Harvard University. During his stay in the United States, he developed passion for painting and gradually began his journey as an artist.

Gulgee is considered as one of the finest contemporary Pakistani painter and sculptor known for both his representational portraits and calligraphic abstractions. His fascinating paintings of horses and astonishing portraits of people echoes his artistic skill and genius. In his abstract works Gulgee uses repetitive brush strokes to give a sense of movement ...