Reminiscence

Rabin Mondal was deeply affected by the Bengal famine of 1943, the struggle for India's independence, and the subsequent partition of his native Bengal. Robin Mondal’s work can be found in the collections of The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Osian’s Art Archive, Mumbai, The Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, and the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, Dubai. He was a founding member of the Calcutta Painters.

Some of Mondal’s best canvases have an obvious cubist influence. Stylistically his work has been predominantly expressionist, a reaction to the tormented humanity that surrounded him in Calcutta, and the tragic events of his formative years.