Sakti Burman (also spelled ''Shakti'', ''Shakthi'' and ''Sakthi''
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He grew up in what is now Bangladesh, British India. He has lived in France for the last five decades, while maintaining strong ties with India, where he regularly exhibits his works. He is married to French painter
Maite Delteil.
[Zaira Arslan (14 January 2013]
"Happiness in Art"
''The Indian Express
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''. Retrieved 24 September 2013. His
extended family
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includes several eminent artists: his daughter,
Maya Burman also lives and works in France; his niece,
Jayasri Burman
Jayasri Burman (born October 21, 1960, in Kolkata) is a contemporary painter and sculptor from India. She is based in New Delhi, India. She studied at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan from 1977 to 1979, and at the Government College of Art and ...
was inspired by him and is a notable artist in her own right; as is his niece's husband,
Paresh Maity. He has had several exhibitions of his work in India, and elsewhere, and won several prizes.
A painter and lithographer, Burman's art has mythic and fantasy content and rich colors.
References
External links
Paintings at the website of Glenbarra Art Museum
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"Sakti Burman Profile,Interview and Artworks"
Artists from Kolkata
20th-century Indian painters
Living people
1935 births
Bengali male artists
French people of Indian descent
French Hindus
Indian male painters
20th-century Indian male artists
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