ON VIEW | Anwar Jalal Shemza at Tate St Ives

Anwar Jalal Shemza’s Chessmen One (1961) is currently on display at Tate St Ives as part of "Modern Art and St Ives".

The painting presents four rows of stylised chess pieces, their geometric forms and delicate linear details reflecting Shemza’s growing interest in the relationship between abstraction, pattern and calligraphy.

Created during a pivotal period in his career, Chessmen One brings together influences from Islamic art, textiles and European modernism, anticipating the increasingly geometric compositions that would define his later practice.

On View
Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Modern Art and St Ives

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