"Nightingales" is a valuable painting by the Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai. The nightingale is a small passerine bird best known for its powerful and beautiful song. It has remained a favourite theme or subject of the artist throughout his career.
Chughtai was a Pakistani painter, noted for his work inspired by a variety of sources that included traditional miniature, Mughal, Art Nouveau, Orientalist, and Islamic styles of painting. Chughtai's best-known paintings are his portraits, featuring their subjects existing in a flattened pictorial space painted in rich golds and pastels, and populated by metaphorical signifiers.
