16 Facts About Bikash Bhattacharjee

Bikash Bhattacharjee was an Indian painter from Kolkata in West Bengal.

Bikash Bhattacharjee worked in oils, acrylics, water-colours, conte and collage.

Bikash Bhattacharjee's 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.

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

Bikash Bhattacharjee painted portraits of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and Samaresh Basu.

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

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

Bikash Bhattacharjee 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, Bikash Bhattacharjee was an accomplished portrait painter.

Bikash Bhattacharjee achieved mastery in capturing the quality of light.

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

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

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

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

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

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