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Rabindranath Tagore

Atul Bose1952

Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Kolkata, India

Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, and also started an experimental school at Santiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. He received a Nobel Prize in English Literature for 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems translated from Bengali into English by him.

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  • Title: Rabindranath Tagore
  • Creator: Atul Bose
  • Creator Lifespan: 1898/1977
  • Creator Nationality: Indian
  • Date Created: 1952
  • Location: Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
  • Location Created: Mymmensing (Presently in Bangladesh)
  • Physical Dimensions: 60.2 x 50 cm
  • Provenance: Bengal Immunity, Calcutta
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil on Canvas
  • Inscription: Signed Atul Bose in lower right with date
  • Gallery Name: N/A
  • Creator's Biography: Atul Bose was a portrait painter from Bengal, studied at the Jubilee Academy in Calcutta and then at the Government art school. His 'Bengal Tiger', a sketch of Asutosh Mukherjee, earned him a scholarship to the Royal Academy in London. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was deeply influenced there by Walter Sickert.
Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

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