Sohail Tassaduq (Pakistani, 1930-2017), Tassaduq Sohail was one of Pakistan’s finest artists. Before he became an artist, he was a short story writer. As a student at the Islamia College in Karachi, one of his teachers Muhammad Hassan Askari, dubbed him a 'raconteur.'

Sohail started painting seriously when he traveled to London and discovered that painting on the streets was a great way to get introduced to women. Some of his paintings are like story boards or film frames. Each frame is loaded with social condemnation and non-conformance. '

Women in his paintings are his dreams. Their eyes tell stories of their fears and desires, their naked backsides protrude out at bearded men, they exist as beautiful fixtures in a breatht...