Abdur Rahman Chughtai

I am in receipt of your request for copyright purposes related to my father

M A Rahman Chughtai. Thanks. I will be sending same in a few days. In the

meantime please correct one very important mistake in your listing. In your

exhibition you listed the works as PROBABLY LAHORE. This is not so. It is

HUNDRED PERCENT LAHORE. I think maybe he made a few postcards in Delhi in

1952, less than 5, and some sketches in Paris in 1936 unsigned and

distributed incognito, but the rest of the work say ten thousand designs

sketches etchings aquatints naqashis paintings and what not, were all made

in LAHORE in his studio at near Pir Makki that is Chughtai Home 281 Ravi

road Lahore-2.The complete address is Chughti Artist Home, Near Pir Makki,

281 Ravi road, Lahore-54000, Pakistan. All his life he worked in his studio

but this one operated from 1938 to 1975. Before that he did all his works at

his ancestral home that is Mohalla Chabuk Swaran, Inside Rang Mahal, Lahore

City. I am very particular about revcords. He loved Lahore so much that

whenever he did sign, he always signed himself as ABDUR RAHMAN CHUGHTAI

LAHORE. Best wishes from Pakistan. We are going to bring our countries

closer to each other through the language of art. ARIF RAHMAN CHUGHTAI

(from e-mail dated 6/16/2006)