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How it all started- Progressive artist group; Modern Art in India (Timeline of Art History), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; M. F. Husain, An artist and a movement, Frontline magazine (The Hindu), Vol.14::No.16::Aug.9-22, 1997 - includes group photo; Private Collection; Works in the University of Michigan Museum of Art; Works at the Tate
Tyeb Mehta (26 July 1925 – 2 July 2009) was an Indian painter, sculptor and film maker. He was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group and the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, like John Wilkins who also broke free from the nationalist Bengal school and embraced Modernism instead, with its Post-Impressionist colours, cubist forms and brusque, expressionistic styles.
In 1952, Samant joined the Progressive Artists' Group [3] and exhibited with them in several shows, including the 1953 exhibition, Progressive Artists' Group: Gaitonde, Raiba, Ara, Hazarnis, Khanna, Husain, Samant, Gade, at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. [4] He also participated in the Bombay Group, a successor to the Bombay PAG.
The artists cite "The Partition" of India and Pakistan 14 August 1947, with its resulting religious rioting and heavy loss of life as their reason for forming The Progressive Artist's Group in Bombay in December 1947. The artists saw the Partition as a "turning point" for India, and their new style of art was urged on by, and was also a turning ...
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The Indian artist, M.F. Husain, recognized F. N. Souza as his mentor. [13] In recent years, Souza's paintings have been sold for over a million dollars. [14] His painting Birth (1955) depicting his mistress Liselotte posing naked while pregnant with their first daughter Keren, [7] set a world auction record in 2008 for the most expensive "Indian" painting sold till then when it was purchased ...
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1949 Progressive Art Group Exhibition, Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay. 1956 Indian Art Exhibition, Eastern Europe. 1957 5,00 Years of Indian Art, Essex. 1957 Young Asian Artists, Tokyo. 1958, 59, 63 Group shows in London and New York. 1965 Solo exhibition in New York. 1966, 67, 70, 73, 74, 77, 80 Solo exhibition in Bombay.