By:THE SAQI
Dimensions:28.5 by 21 cm.; 11 ¼ by 8 ¼ in.
With the dusk, when I am in my cups There is always enough and more. But with you in charge, o saqi dear, Pour on, don’t keep the score. Signed, inscribed Lahore and dated ’46 (AD 1925) in Urdu lower left Line wash and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper Provenance: Acquired by the present owner in the early 1980s. Compare: Chughtai’s Paintings, Jahangir Book Club, Lahore, 1928, plate 15 illus.; Sotheby’s London, 8th May 1997, lot 253 for a similar work of the same subject, sold GBP 24,150; P.T. Issar, Galib, Bangalore, 1999, opp. P. 92 illus.