Covering 55 years on canvas

Murtaza Bashir and Qayyum Chowdhury at the exhibition inaugural

The exhibit includes his pen-and-ink drawing of the '50s. In the same decade he did some linocuts and lithos depicting landscape and figures. Next he did variations of cubism.

Later, using triangles and squares, Baseer went to celebrate life and nature, ignoring the seamy side of life. In the '60s Baseer was overcome by ennui and loneliness. During the Liberation War that followed he commemorated martyrs with a simple arrangement of pebbles.

In the late '70s he dealt with motifs taken from religious amulets and prayer mats and was drawn away by his fascination by the world of numismatics. In 1992 he resumed painting and went into stylised folk painting using the colours of the Pala paintings of Bengal.

The exhibition which begins today coincides with the artists birthday.