Career
He was also among the few early modernists of Pakistani origin to have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with solo exhibitions at the New Vision, Lincoln, and Clement Stephens galleries in London, along with exhibitions at London"s Commonwealth Institute and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford between 1952-1964. In 1962, Parvez held a two-man exhibition at the Lincoln Gallery with American painter Alexander Calder. Ali Imam wrote in 1979 that "Ahmed Parvez has held over 30 solo exhibitions in Europe, United States and Pakistan.
He is undoubtedly our most exhibited Pakistani painter abroad." The mood is as near to Klee as it is to the jeweled ambiance of an Eastern potentate." The Oxford Mail review of Parvez’s work noted that “it takes an extremely clear vision or strong personality to impose such an individual character on an abstract or near abstract design.
Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Jackson Pollock and R.J. Hitchcock are among the few that have lieutenant So is Ahmed Parvez.” In the 1950s, Victor Musgrave, a British poet, art dealer and curator of Gallery One, considered Parvez to be “without question, the outstanding artist from Pakistan who has made a very strong impact upon the English art world.
From 1955 to 1964, Ahmed lived and worked in London, United Kingdom. In the late 1960s, he spent two years living and working in the United States before returning to Pakistan. Ahmed died of a brain hemorrhage in 1979.
On 14 August 2006, The Pakistan Post issued a Rs.
40 sheetlet of stamps to posthumously honor 10 Pakistani painters. Besides Ahmed Parvez, the other nine painters honored were: Laila Shahzada, Askari Mian Irani, Sadequain, Ali Imam, Shakir Ali, Anna Molka Ahmed, Zahoor ul Akhlaq, Zubeida Agha and Bashir Mirza.