A Satish Gujral arwork

Born in 1925 in Jhelum, in pre-partition West Punjab, Satish Gujral moved to India in 1944 to join the Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai. A witness to Partition, the agony of the immigrant experience strongly manifested itself in Gujral’s early works—his first collection of works during 1947 are called the Partition Series. It is a theme he has returned to frequently in his career that spanned over six decades.