Fazal Sheikh
Osman and Farid, Blind Qari (“One Who Knows the Koran by Heart”) Brothers with Rosaries, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

Osman and Farid, Blind Qari (“One Who Knows the Koran by Heart”) Brothers with Rosaries, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

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Artist Fazal Sheikh American, born 1965

CultureAmerican

Titles

Osman and Farid, Blind Qari (“One Who Knows the Koran by Heart”) Brothers with Rosaries, Afghan Refugee Village, Nasir Bagh, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
from the series The Victor Weeps

Date1997, printed 2016

Place depictedNasir Bagh, Pakistan

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 27 13/16 × 21 1/4 in. (70.7 × 54 cm)
Sheet: 33 3/8 × 26 3/4 in. (84.7 × 67.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jane P. Watkins

Object number2017.50

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by African American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper right corner: FZ.164.6
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Osman and Farid, blind qari (‘one who knows the Koran by heart’) brothers, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, 1997 // ©Fazal Sheikh

Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Osman and Farid, blind qari (‘one who knows the Koran by heart’) brothers, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, 1997 // ©Fazal Sheikh

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