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Bikash Bhattacharjee was born on 21 June, 1940 in Kolkata, is an Indian artist (1940–2006). Discover Bikash Bhattacharjee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 21 June 1940
Birthday 21 June
Birthplace Kolkata
Date of death 18 December, 2006
Died Place Kolkata
Nationality India

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1940

Bikash Bhattacharjee (21 June 1940 – 18 December 2006) was an Indian painter from Kolkata in West Bengal.

Through his paintings, he depicted the life of the average middle-class Bengali – their aspirations, superstitions, hypocrisy and corruption, and even the violence that is endemic to Kolkata.

He worked in oils, acrylics, water-colours, conté and collage.

Bhattacharjee was born in Kolkata 1940.

At a very early age he lost his father.

The consequent struggle for survival left him with a deep sense of insecurity as well as an empathy for the under-privileged, who often feature in his works.

1960

He achieved commercial success early in life with his Doll Series in the 1960s, which was later followed by the Durga Series.

1963

In 1963, he graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship.

Bikash lived in Kolkata all his life.

1964

In 1964, he became a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists.

1965

His first solo exhibition was at Kolkata in 1965.

1968

Bhattacharjee taught at Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship from 1968 to 1972.

1969

His paintings were exhibited outside India; he had shows in 1969 at Paris; between 1970 and 72 in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary; in London in 1982; and in New York in 1985.

1973

He taught at the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata from 1973 to 1982.

1980

In the 1980s, Bhttacharjee painted illustrations for a novel on the life of Ram Kinker Baij, a great artist of the past.

The novel, written by Bengali novelist Samaresh Basu, was never completed because of the death of the author, but Bhttacharjee's works for the book were some of his best.

Bhttacharjee often painted in a realistic style.

He painted portraits of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and Samaresh Basu.

His portrait of Indira Gandhi, with a blurred and white face, was painted after her murder.

He produced a series of works about the Naxal movement and a group of paintings of prostitutes.

Bikash had inspired a host of painters in India including Sanjay Bhattacharya, a realistic painter from Bengal.

Bikash Bhattacharya is credited with bringing realism back to Indian art at a time when artists in India were leaning more towards distortion of figures and abstraction.

Besides painting the city and its people that he knew so well, Bhattacharjee was an accomplished portrait painter.

Realism was Bhattacharjee's forte; his oil paintings could depict the exact quality of drapery or the skin tone of a woman.

He achieved mastery in capturing the quality of light.

Bhattacharjee achieved an enigmatic quality in his paintings that works on many levels from the visual to the subconscious.

Subject matter included depictions of the female form, and people of all ages and situations—old men and women, children, domestic help.

He had the ability to create an authentic milieu as a background to the characters to heighten the drama.

Bikash had been deeply influenced by the surrealists, and stated that Salvador Dalí was his favourite painter.

2000

In 2000, Bhattacharjee suffered a paralytic stroke that left him paralysed and unable to paint.

2003

In 2003, he was awarded the highest award of Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship.

2006

He died in a Kolkata nursing home on 18 December 2006 following a prolonged illness.

He was survived by his wife Parbati, a son, and a daughter.

His paintings can be found in the following galleries: