Mukul Dey

Listing Details

0 Reviews

Popular

All, Artist

Indian painter-engraver Mukul Chandra Dey (1895-1989) — better known as Mukul Dey — was an important personality of his time. A student of Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan School during the early years of the 20th century (c. 1906-1912), he left his mark as a pioneer of drypoint-etching in India.
An extremely sensitive artist (perhaps temperamental at times), he chose an essentially Western medium to depict subjects of Indian life and legends from a common man’s viewpoint. The river scenes of Bengal, the Baul singers, the bazaars of Calcutta, or the life of Santhal villages in Birbhum — all these attracted his attention and he recorded his vision with deep feeling and a rare sureness of hand. Read More..

The latest update by 3h art space

[wpb-product-slider items="4" items_desktop_small="3" items_tablet="2" items_mobile="1"]

Features

Known for

Artist

Contact Information

Address

Mukul Dey Archives Trust, "Chitralekha" House, Seba-Palli, P. O. Santiniketan, West Bengal - 731235, India
Email
sukil@chitralekha.org
Website
http://www.chitralekha.org/