BANU SINGH

BANU SINGH 1933
Sanguine on paper 43 x 32 cm
Artist’s signature and date (bottom right): Boris Georgiev 1933
Inv. N 823
‘A portrait of an old Indian’, Boris Georgiev wrote about Banu Singh’s portrait.
During his stay in India the artist painted portraits of famous personalities, leaders and ordinary people, and he deeply admired the richness of the inner world of the Indians. The image of Banu Singh takes central stage in the composition of the painting Meeting the Pariahs in India which Mahatma Gandhi called: Daridra Naraana. The name Banu Singh might refer to the legendary, perhaps non-existent Indian poet of the middle ages. The Bengalese version of the name, Bhānusim. ha (Sun Lion) is the pseudonym under which the young Rabindranath Tagore published in the Bharoti magazine his first poems about Radha and Krishna which made him famous.