Jahar Dasgupta

Jahar Dasgupta, a significant contributor of the modernist art movement in Bengal. Painters Orchestra, one of the oldest art group in Kolkata, founded in 1969 with seven members and Jahar Dasgupta is one of the founder. In his early days he used to paint in oil medium and gradually shifted to work in ink, pastel and acrylic colour thereby developing his individual style in paintings and drawings. The subject of his paintings ranges from reality of life to nature, animal and woman in dry pastel both in monochrome of black and white.

Education : 1961-64: Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal.

Solo show : Academy of Fine Arts, Chitrakut Art Gallery, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Academy Delhi, Gallery Housemania, Oslo, Norway.

Group show : Jehangir Art Gallery, The Prince of Walles Museum, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, Kamalanayan Bajaj Hall Art Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, Nehru Centre London, and Maison De Linde- Salle Indira Gandhi, Paris. Invited Artist – Salon Exposition- Gallery Wooduck, Soki and Prague Congress Center, South Korea, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Singapore, NABC- USA