{{short description|Indian painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Atul Basu | image = File:Atul Bose Royal Academy.jpg | caption = Atul Bose At the Windsor Castle in London, Circa 1930 | birth_date = 22 February 1898 | birth_place = Mymensingh, Bengal Presidency, British India | death_date = {{death date and age|1977|07|10|1898|02|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Calcutta, India | alma_mater = Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta<br />Royal Academy | known_for = Founding the Indian Academy of Art }}
'''Atul Basu''' (22 February 1898 – 10 July 1977) was an Indian painter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bose, Atul |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bose%2c+Atul |website=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition |publisher=The Gale Group, Inc. |date=1970–1979}}</ref> He was an expert in portraying realistic landscapes, portraits and village scenery. He used oil colors for painting.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Chowdhury |first=Sima Roy |year=2012 |chapter=Bose, Atul |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bose,_Atul |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subodh Chandra |editor2-last=Basu |editor2-first=Anjali |year=2010 |orig-year=First published 1976 |script-title=bn:অতুল বসু |trans-title=Atul Basu |script-encyclopedia=bn:সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান |encyclopedia=Saṃsada bāṅāli caritābhidhāna |trans-encyclopedia=Parliament Bengali Biographical Dictionary |language=bn |volume=1 |edition= |location=Kolkata |publisher=Sahitya Samsad |isbn=978-81-7955-135-6 |page=11 |script-quote=bn:ভারতীয় শিল্পজগতের অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ প্রতিকৃতি-শিল্পী। ... ১৯শ শতাব্দীর মধ্যভাগ থেকে তেল-রঙের মাধ্যমে অ্যাকাডেমিক প্রথায় প্রতিকৃতি-চিত্ররচনায় বাঙালী শিল্পীদের যে ঐতিহ্য গড়ে উঠেছিল, তিনি তার সুযোগ্য উত্তরসাধক। । |trans-quote=One of the greatest portrait artists of Indian art ... He is a worthy successor to the tradition of Bengali artists who had been painting portraits in the academic tradition of oil painting since the mid-19th century.}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Atul was born in 1898 at Mymensingh in the then Bengal Presidency. He spent his childhood in Mymensingh town. He started his primary education in the National Council of Education, Mymensingh branch. Then he studied in Jubilee Art Academy of Kolkata. The syllabus of this academy was not same as other academies.<ref name=bpedia/>
A sketch of the educationist Asutosh Mukherjee, 'Bengal Tiger',<ref>{{cite web|url =https://prinseps.com/auctions/lots/bengal-tiger-ashutosh-mukherjee-atul-bose-25-15/|title= Portrait of Ashutosh Mukherjee by Atul Bose|website=Prinseps|date=December 2020}}</ref> won Bose a scholarship from the University of Calcutta to study art at the Royal Academy in London from 1924 to 1926. While studying there, Bose was influenced by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help Mukul Dey decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition.<ref name=MakingBritain>[http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/atul-bose Atul Bose], ''Making Britain'', Open University.</ref>
==Career== Bose helped Hemen Majumdar to establish Indian Academy of Art in 1919. He was the founder member of the academy and he had also been the principal of the Government Art School, Calcutta during 1945–1948. Afterwards he became the director of the Government College of Art & Craft.<ref name=bpedia/>
Bose painted portraits from the original collections at the Windsor Castle and the Buckingham Palace under the commission of the Indian government. His notable works include ''Sphinx'' (oil on plywood) and ''Self Portrait'' (1945).<ref name=bpedia/>
In 1921, Bose along with Bhabani Charan Laha set up Indian School of Oriental Art.<ref name=bpedia/>
Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta honored Bose with a D.Litt degree in 1970.<ref name=bpedia/>
== Collections == * Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) * National Gallery of Modern Art * Indian Museum * Parliament House, New Delhi * Raj Bhavan, Kolkata
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==External links== *[http://www.artnet.com/artists/atul-bose/past-auction-results Atul Bose] at Artnet.com *{{Banglapedia|Bose,_Atul}} *{{OL author|567182A}}
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