Paritosh Sen () (26 September 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian

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. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. He was a founder member of the

Calcutta Group The Calcutta Group was a group of modern artists in India, formed in 1943 in Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the ea ...

, an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce

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into

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. 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. Upon his return to India, he taught first in Bihar and then at

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. 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 a

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. Sen has exhibited widely both in India and abroad, including the Calcutta Group exhibition (1944), London (1962),

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(1965), New Delhi Triennale (1968, 1971, 1975), Sweden (1984), and the Havana Biennale (1986). In 1959/60, Sen published ''Zindabahar'', a book of autobiographical sketches in which he memorialized the Dacca city of his childhood. He died in Kolkata.

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''Hilarious treatment of protagonists''
The Telegraph, 5 May 2006 *, The Hindu, 19 August 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Paritosh 1918 births 2008 deaths Bengali people Artists from Dhaka Indian male painters Rockefeller Fellows Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi Academic staff of Jadavpur University Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière 20th-century Indian painters Artists from Kolkata Painters from West Bengal

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