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Paritosh Sen

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Paritosh Sen
  • Date of Birth:
    October 18, 1918
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Libra
  • Place of Birth:
    Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Date of Death:
    October 22, 2008
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:

     Govt. School of Art, Madras

     

Family

Paritosh Sen

    Career

    Paritosh Sen

    Awards

    Paritosh Sen
    1969-70: French Fellowship for designing typeface

    1970-71: Awarded JDR 3rd Foundation Grant, USA

    1983, 84, 87: Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

    1985: Asian Paints Award, Calcutta

    1989: Awarded Abanindra Puraskar, Govt. of West Bengal

    1991: Awarded D. Litt, Burdwan University, West Bengal

    1996: Kalidas Nag Award

    1997: The English Speaking Union Outstanding Citizen Award

    1998: Hirachand Dugar Award

    1998: Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty Smriti Puraskar, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta

    1999: Aban-Gagan Puraskar, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan

    2004: Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

    Trivia

    Paritosh Sen
    • Sen has exhibited widely both in India and abroad, including the Calcutta Group exhibition (1944), London (1962), Sao Paolo Biennale (1965), New Delhi Triennale (1968, 1971, 1975), Sweden (1984), and the Havana Biennale (1986).
    • In 1969 he was the recipient of the French Fellowship for Designing and Typeface and in 1970 he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship.
    • Sen pursued his artistic training at the Academie Andre Lhote, the Academie la Grande Chaumiere, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Ecole des Louvre in Paris.
    • He was a founder member of the Calcutta Group, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce modernism into Indian art.
    • Was a leading Indian artist.

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