Murshid at Suresnes: A Portrait by Nan Hill

After closely collaborating on the portrait of the WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan, unveiled in September 2018 at the Inayatiyya’s headquarters, the Astana in Richmond, Virginia, Pir Zia and the artist Nan Majida Hill turned to co-creating a portrait of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan.

This new portrait, Murshid at Suresnes, was completed in March 2020 and to be unveiled at our annual leadership gathering later that month. Due to the global pandemic, this unveiling did not take place, and was eventually held as a private showing on August 26, 2020 in the Astana’s courtyard.

Murshid at Suresnes envisions the Sufi mystic, Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), teaching during Sufi Summer School held annually in Suresnes, France throughout the 1920s. Sufi Summer School was taught in part in a field across from Fazal Manzil, the Inayat Khan family home, with Murshid always sitting under a sacred apricot tree, as in his portrait.

We are honored to offer limited-edition, fine art reproduction prints of Murshid at Suresnes: A Portrait by Nan Majida Hill.

Prints are fine art quality pigment inkjet printed on 12.25” x 12.25″ acid-free archival paper, suitable for matting & framing. This truly gorgeous edition is limited to 200 prints. Each print in the series is numbered and signed by the artist

Prints are $65 + Shipping & Handling. Please reserve your print today, to be delivered within two weeks of purchase.

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Select prints are being held in reserve as gifts for those of you who have donated $2,400 or more toward the Inayatiyya in 2020. If you fall into this category, please expect your limited edition print to arrive early December.  Details about our Inayatiyya Fall Appeal 2020, including gift categories, may be found here. 

12.25” x12.25” image w/ white space for framing. Recommended for a 16” x 16” frame.

$65 + Shipping & Handling

Majida Hill, creator of the iconic equestrian portrait of Pirzadi-Shahida Noor featured on the cover of Dream Flowers, has produced another masterpiece. Majida’s painting of Murshid under his favorite apricot tree is historically accurate, artistically impeccable, and spiritually powerful. Its presence at the Astana is a blessing, and I hope that you will have the chance to see it here, face-to-face, before long. – Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Click here to read Nan Hill’s Artist Statement. 

BIOGRAPHY

Nan Majida Hill, a Minnesota native, was born in 1953. She attended Smith College and earned a degree in painting from UMASS Amherst. Hill is a contemporary realist painter with a long association with a group of realist painters of renown in western Massachusetts. She has exhibited her artwork, mostly still life, in the United States in solo and group exhibitions for over 30 years. Also known for portraiture, Hill has completed official retirement portraits for a first woman First Justice, professors emeriti of Mount Holyoke and Skidmore Colleges, and portrait commissions for film star Matt Damon, the founders of Meditech in Boston and many more. Hill’s paintings are in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Citibank, the Northampton Family & Probate Court, Spoleto Restaurants, and Neil & Jane Pappalardo along with numerous private collections. Hill was honored to recently complete official portraits of Sufi spiritual master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-2017) and WWll spy heroine Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) for the Astana, headquarters of the Inayatiyya in Richmond, Virginia.

Please see here for Nan Hill’s portrait of Noor Inayat Khan, unveiled in Richmond in September 2018.

Murshid in Suresnes, by the artist Nan Hill, is copyrighted by the Inayatiyya. All rights reserved. If you would like licensing permission to use this image, please send requests to astana@inayatiyya.org.