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Bimal Dasgupta

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"I believe that if an artist has mastered one medium, he can work in the others as well. I paint only when I am in the mood. The colours are always there in my heart, an unseen power in the background drives me to put them down on canvas."

The Bengal School of Art influenced Dasgupta. He painted landscapes that gave full rein to his penchant for nature and its fanciful shapes and colours, with the ocean being an endless source of...
Read More "I believe that if an artist has mastered one medium, he can work in the others as well. I paint only when I am in the mood. The colours are always there in my heart, an unseen power in the background drives me to put them down on canvas."

The Bengal School of Art influenced Dasgupta. He painted landscapes that gave full rein to his penchant for nature and its fanciful shapes and colours, with the ocean being an endless source of fascination. Several of his paintings are surrealistic and abstract in his depiction of the teeming life underwater.

A native of Bengal, Dasgupta spent his childhood years in Behrampur. He remembers, "My parents did not want me to be an artist. It was considered a waste of time. Boys were discouraged. But I was not interested in school, and after my matriculation I begged my father for money and began painting. Since colours and canvasses were so expensive, I did other part-time jobs."

Despite these obstacles, Dasgupta completed his art education from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, and embarked on a career as a landscape artist. Primarily interested in watercolours, Dasgupta nevertheless painted in other mediums as well. He had to give up oils, when he developed an allergy to turpentine and linseed oil. Thereafter, he took up acrylic. But his preferred medium always remained watercolour.

Moving slowly, but surely, from realistic images to the completely abstract, Dasgupta used textural changes and sharp-defined colour schemes, making his landscapes come alive with shifting shapes and barely visible forms.

A world submerged in grey, black and blue, Bimalda (as he was fondly known) felt his canvases were an extension of his mind. "My choice of colours was dictated by the themes I chose to paint," he once told a close friend. The liberal use of blues and the merging of greys and blacks were the natural outcome of the submarine world he portrayed. Through these sombre hues, a ray of bright yellow flashes, illuminating the whole painting and revealing the hidden meanings embedded in his work.

Honours and Awards

1989 Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

1988 Awarded title of...

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PAST AUCTIONS

Showing 4 of 6 works

Lot 54 Details

Evening Sale 14 September 2024

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Acrylic on board

30.75 x 25.25 in

Winning bid
$23,133
Rs 19,20,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 15 Details

Summer Online Auction 12-13 June 2019

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in

Winning bid
$7,500
Rs 5,17,500
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 23 Details

Modern Indian Art 5-6 December 2018

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Oil on canvas

23.5 x 19.75 in

Lot 83 Details

Summer Online Auction 13-14 June 2018

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Oil on canvas

34.75 x 29 in

Winning bid
$10,909
Rs 7,20,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

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PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS

Showing 4 of 26 works

Absolute Tuesdays 7 November 2023

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

21.5 x 27.5 in

Winning bid
$1,463
Rs 1,20,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 39 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 4 April 2023

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Watercolour and graphite on paper

26 x 20 in

Winning bid
$732
Rs 60,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Absolute Tuesdays 28 March 2023

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Mixed media on paper pasted on plyboard

39.75 x 25.5 in

Winning bid
$1,317
Rs 1,08,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 35 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 7 February 2023

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Watercolour and pencil on paper pasted on plywood

40 x 26 in

Winning bid
$889
Rs 72,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

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EXHIBITIONS

Showing 4 of 8 works

Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Oil on canvas

54 x 45 in

Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Watercolour and graphite on paper

30 x 22 in

Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

Bimal Dasgupta

Concorde Paris

Ink on paper

12 x 17 in

Lot 10 Details

Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

Bimal Dasgupta

Untitled

Watercolour and graphite on paper

19 x 15 in

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