Paritosh Sen | |
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| পরিতোষ সেন | |
| Born | 26 September 1918 Dhaka,British India |
| Died | 22 October 2008(age 90) Kolkata, India |
Paritosh Sen (Bengali:পরিতোষ সেন) (26 September 1918 – 22 October 2008[1]) was a leading Indianartist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. He was a founder member of theCalcutta Group, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introducemodernism intoIndian art.
Sen pursued his artistic training at theAcademie Andre Lhote, theAcademie la Grande Chaumiere, theEcole des Beaux Arts, and theEcole des Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to India, he taught first in Bihar and then atJadavpur University. He also taught art at The Daly College at Indore during the late 1940s.
In 1969 he was the recipient of the French Fellowship for Designing and Typeface and in 1970 he was awarded aRockefeller Fellowship. Sen has exhibited widely both in India and abroad, including the Calcutta Group exhibition (1944), London (1962),São Paulo Biennale (1965),New Delhi Triennale (1968, 1971, 1975), Sweden (1984), and theHavana Biennale (1986).
In 1959/60, Sen publishedZindabahar, a book of autobiographical sketches in which he memorialized the Dacca city of his childhood.
He died in Kolkata.
