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Chughtai was educated at the famous Mayo School of Art, Lahore (now the National College of Arts), studied under Abanindranath Tagore and Printmaking in London. He was also Head-instructor in Chromo-Lithography at the Mayo School of Art, Lahore. Chughtai exhibited with the Punjab Fine Art Society, Lahore (1920) and the Indian School of Oriental Art during the 1920s. During the late 1930s, Chughtai's work contributed greatly to the energetic modern art scene that was burgeoning in pre-partition Lahore. |
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Chughtai also designed the first indigenous Pakistani stamp that was issued almost a year later in July 1948, printed for Pakistan. The 1 Re stamp above beautifully engraved with Urdu inscription reading "Long Live Pakistan" was thus the first stamp. Chughtai also designed a number of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1949 to 1960s.
On the independence day of 1951, he produced a set of 9 stamps, internationally known as Chughtai Art set, was considered as the most beautiful stamps of the world at that time.
He also designed the emblems of Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan which are still the official monograms of both the National TV and Radio channel. Besides painting, he was also a short story writer of considerable merit and 2 collections of his short stories have been published. Abdul Rehman Chughtai died on 17th January, 1975 in Lahore. |
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