Mustajab Shelle

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Mustajab Shelle (Urdu: مستجاب شیلے ) is an artist who has painted thousands of book covers for Hindi novels.[1] Shelle is an Amroha, India, based painter, whose original name is Mustajab Ahmad Siddiqui. He has learnt the art of painting from Eqbal Mehdi.

After a long career of painting cover pages for Hindi pulp fiction, Shelle turned to realist and abstract painting using water and oil medium.[2]

Shelle has participated in numerous exhibitions.

References[edit]

  1. Subramanian, Samanth (August 9, 2008). "Hindi pulp art's last man standing?". www.livemint.com.
  2. "Shelle Mustajab". Saatchi Art.