List of paintings by Zainul Abedin explained

This list of paintings by the Bengali painter Zainul Abedin is incomplete.^[1]

Title	Year	Technique	Dimensions	Collection	Notes
Dumka Forest	1934	Watercolour on paper	37 × 28 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Study: Village Pathway	1934	Watercolour on paper	28 × 22.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Zoo Study	1935	Watercolour on paper	-×- cm	-
Harvesting	1938	Oil on canvas	-×- cm	-
Famine	1943	Watercolour on paper	38 × 29.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Tea Stall	1943	Oil on canvas	57.5 × 75 cm
Waiting	1943	Watercolour on paper	37 × 56 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Angling	1946	Watercolour on paper	57.5 × 77.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
40/2 Abdul Hadi Lane	1948	Oil on board	26.5 × 19 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Harvest	1948	Watercolour on paper	57.5 × 77.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Reading	1948	Oil on board	26.5 × 19 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Still Life	1948	Oil on canvas	76 × 56 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Dumka	1940s	Oil on board	23 × 33 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Dumka	1940s	Oil on board	23 × 33 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	29 × 38.5 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	38 × 28.5 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	37 × 27 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	38 × 28 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28 × 38 cm	Abul Khair
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	25.5 × 38 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Dumka	1940s	Watercolour on paper	28.5 × 38.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Dumka Landscape	1940s	Oil on board	19.5 × 32.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Dumka Landscape	1940s	Oil on board	19.5 × 32.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Girl in the Garden	1940s	Watercolour on paper	72 × 64.5 cm	Abul Khair
Hut	1940s	Watercolour on paper	13.5 × 28.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Portrait	1940s	Oil on board	24 × 16.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Santal Landscape	1940s	Watercolour on paper	38 × 28 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Silent Trio	1940s	Watercolour on paper	29 × 39 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Santhal Maidens		Oil	-×- cm	-
After Fishing	1950	Watercolour on paper	57 × 77.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Kalboishakhi	1950	Watercolour on paper	57 × 75 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
After Bathing	1951	Watercolour on paper	68 × 41.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Crossing the Moyurakhhi	1951	Watercolour on paper	57 × 75.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Mother and Child	1951	Tempera on paper	54.5 × 26 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Mother and Child	1951	Tempera on paper	53 × 34.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Rebel Cow	1951	Watercolour on paper	58.5 × 76 cm	-
Santal Couple	1951	Watercolour on paper	68.5 × 54.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Santal Man and Woman	1951	Watercolour on paper	58.4 × 73.7 cm
Santal Women	1951	Watercolour on paper	81.5 × 67 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Two Santhal Women	1951	Watercolour on paper	73.7 × 58.5 cm	-
Waiting for the Ferry to Cross the Brahmaputra	1951	Watercolour on soft-board paper	34 × 52 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Woman	1951	Tempera on paper	50.5 × 14.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Woman with a Pitcher	1951	Watercolour on paper	54 × 41 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Beauty Regime / Women Dressing Hair	1953	Oil on paper	51 × 36 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Face of a Woman	1953	Gouache on paper	26.5 × 20 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Family	1953	Watercolour on paper	70 × 38 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Mother and Child	1953	Watercolour on paper	29 × 23 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Painyar Ma	1953	Gouache on paper	32 × 23 cm	-
Peasant	1953	Watercolour on paper	30.5 × 18 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Reflecting	1953	Tempera on paper	37.5 × 27 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Snake Charmers	1953	Tempera on paper	34.5 × 17 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Three Women	1953	Tempera on paper	38 × 28 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Two Sisters	1953	Gouache on paper	29 × 23 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Woman	1953	Tempera on paper	45.5 × 29 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Struggle	1954	Tempera on masonite board	60 × 243 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Towing Boat	1955	Gouache on paper	25 × 35 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Untitled (Two Children)	1955	Watercolour on paper	21 7/8 × 24 5/8 in. (55.6 × 62.5 cm.)	The private collection of late Elizabeth Lindsey	^[2]
Urban House	1955	Oil on paper	32.5 × 51 cm	Abul Khair
Foreign Land	1956	Watercolour on paper	35.5 × 28 cm	-
In the Streets	1956	Watercolour on paper	30 × 24.5 cm	-
On the Coast	1956	Watercolour on paper	28 × 35.5 cm	-
Generations	1957	Oil on canvas	43 × 68.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Manhattan	1957	Watercolour on paper	35.5 × 28 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Near Niagara Falls	1957	Watercolour on paper	36 × 31 cm	-
Rural Landscape	1957	Watercolour on paper	38 × 50 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Levelling the Ploughed Field	1959	Watercolour on paper	58 × 75 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
The Struggle	1959	Oil and tempera on masonite board	155 × 627 cm	-
Angling	1950s	Watercolour on paper	57 × 77.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Boats on the Hily River	1950s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Chittagong Hill Tracts	1950s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Chittagong Hill Tracts	1950s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Damsel	1950s	Oil on board	53 × 46 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Dignity of Labour	1950s	Oil on paper	56 × 38 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Face of a Woman	1950s	Gouache on board	70 × 54 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Farmer with His Cow	1950s	Watercolour on paper on board	16 × 38 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Kalboishakhi	1950s	Watercolour on paper	-×- cm	-
On the Way to Work	1950s	Oil on board	47 × 29 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Painter	1950s	Gouache and poster colour on paper	20 × 13 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Santal Men and Women	1950s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Still Life	1950s	Oil on board	82 × 61 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Toilette	1950s	Watercolour on paper	39 × 36 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Toilette	1950s	Oil on paper	36.5 × 26.5 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Tribal Man	1950s	Oil on board	76 × 56 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Tribal Woman	1950s	Oil on board	76 × 56 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
River Buriganga	1966	Watercolour on paper	56 × 75 cm	Shafiqul & Selima Islam
Toilette	1966	Acrylic on paper	27 × 21.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
River	1967	Watercolour on paper	54 × 74 cm
Toilette	1967	Oil on canvas	76 × 102 cm	Hamida Hossain
Bamboo Fort of Titumir	1968	Mixed media on board	122 × 144 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Moyurakhhi Village	1968	Watercolour on paper	52 × 74 cm	-
Rebel Cows	1968	Watercolour on paper	54 × 74 cm	-
Santal Men and Women	1968	Watercolour on paper	52 × 74 cm	-
Study for a Painting	1969	Watercolour on paper	11 × 31 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Towing Boat	1968	Watercolour on paper	54 × 74 cm	-
Untitled (Santhal Women)	1969	Oil on canvas	155.3 × 68.6 cm	-	^[3]
Boats	1960s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Fishing	1960s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Fishing	1969	Oil on paper	6.5 × 30 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Mosque	1960s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
River View at Sadarghat	1960s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Steamer on River Buriganga	1960s	Watercolour on paper	56 × 76 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Gypsy Boat	1970	Oil on canvas	68 × 251 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Life in Bangladesh	1970	Wax, black ink, and watercolour on paper	120 × 1980 cm	-
Monpura	1970	Watercolour and wax on paper	27.5 × 36 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Monpura	1970	Watercolour and wax on paper	27.5 × 36 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Nabanna	1970	Watercolour and wax on paper scroll	105 × 1,950 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Returning Home	1970	Oil on canvas	99 × 244 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Sailing Boats	1970	Watercolour on paper	19 × 28 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Two Faces	1970	Acrylic on paper	55 × 75 cm
Bangladesh Liberation war	1971		-×- cm	-
Birangana (Unsung Ballads)	1971	Oil on canvas	91.5 × 96.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
The Return	1971	Watercolour on paper	11.5 × 60 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Bride with a Mirror	1972	Acrylic on paper	96.5 × 71 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Composition	1972	Oil on canvas	99 × 127 cm	Bangladesh National Museum
Resting	1972	Acrylic on paper	36 × 26.5 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Fishing Boats	1973	Watercolour on paper	14 × 19 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Fishing Boats	1973	Oil on canvas	82 × 112 cm	Mustafa Zaman Abbasi
Women with Pitchers	1973	Oil on canvas	98 × 151 cm
Towing Boat	1974	Watercolour and wax on paper	56 × 76 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Bathing	1976	Oil on canvas	109 × 184 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Struggle	1976	Oil on canvas	60 × 243 cm	Jahanara Abedin
Untitled (Unfinished)	1970s	Oil on canvas	76 × 97 cm	Bangladesh National Museum

Notes and references

References

Book: Dadi . Iftikhar . 2010 . Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia . The University of North Carolina Press . 978-0-8078-3358-2.
Book: Falvo . Rosa Maria . 2012 . Zainul Abedin . Bengal Foundation . 978-88-572-1077-3.
Book: Jahangir . Burhanuddin Khan . Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir . Guhathakurta . Meghna . 1993 . The Quest of Zainul Abedin . The International Centre for Bengal Studies . 984-8127-01-1.

Notes and References

Book: Islam, Nazrul . Jaẏanula Ābedina, ta̐mra kāja o katha . Bāṃlādeśa Śilpakalā Ekāḍemi . Ḍhāka . 1997 . 9845550126 .
Web site: Zainul Abedin. Arcadja.com. 16 December 2014.
Web site: Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) . Christie's.