Paritosh Sen(October 18, 1918 – October 22, 2008) was a leading India

India

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n artist

Artist

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. He was born in Dhaka

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 (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh

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. He was a founder member of the Calcutta Group

Calcutta Group

The Calcutta Group was the first group of modern artists in India, formed in 1943 in Kolkata. Its leading members included the sculptor Pradosh Das Gupta and the painters Paritosh Sen, Gopal Ghose, Nirode Mazumdar and Zainul Abedin...

, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce modernism

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 into Indian art

Indian art

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Sen pursued his artistic training at the Academie Andre Lhote

André Lhote

André Lhote was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art....

, the Academie la Grande Chaumiere, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Ecole des Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to India, he taught first in Bihar

Bihar

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 and then at Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...

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In 1969 he was the recipient of the French Fellowship for Designing and Typeface and in 1970 he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship. Sen has exhibited widely both in India and abroad, including the Calcutta Group exhibition (1944), London

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 (1962), Sao Paolo Biennale (1965), New Delhi Triennale (1968, 1971, 1975), Sweden

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 (1984), and the Havana Biennale (1986).

Further reading

• Manasij Majumdar, Paritosh Sen: In Retrospect (Contemporary Indian Artists Series), Mapin Publishing (2007), ISBN 1890206350
• Paritosh Sen (Lalit Kala series on contemporary Indian art), Lalit Kala Akademi
  Lalit Kala Akademi
  The Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art is India's National Academy of Arts. It was an autonomous organization, established at New Delhi in 1954 by Government of India to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, both within and outside the country...
  
  (1975)

External links

• Paritosh Sen, National Gallery of Modern Art
• Hilarious treatment of protagonists, The Telegraph, May 5, 2006
• Sen and sensibility, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2002