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Born in Kolkata, Ganesh Pyne was a notable contemporary artist of the Bengal School of Art. Pyne was profoundly impacted by the communal riots that shook Calcutta in 1946, during which he saw piles of corpses around the devastated city. The trauma of the event manifested in his works: dark dreams inhabited by death, demonic animals, and distorted figures. Pyne was inspired by the Bengal School and initially worked with watercolours before moving to gouache and tempera. He joined the Society of Contemporary Artists in 1963.