# Paritosh Sen > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Paritosh_Sen > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Paritosh_Sen.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritosh_Sen > Source revision: 1280431264 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Indian artist (1918–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox artist | name = Paritosh Sen | native_name = পরিতোষ সেন | birth_date = 26 September 1918 |birth_place = Dhaka, [British India](/source/British_India) | death_date = 22 October 2008(age 90) |death_place = Kolkata, India }} '''Paritosh Sen''' ({{langx|bn|পরিতোষ সেন}}) (26 September 1918 – 22 October 2008{{cite news|title=End of a golden age: Artist Paritosh Sen passes away |date=23 October 2008 |url=http://www.sindhtoday.net/health/30687.htm |work=Sindh Today |accessdate=2008-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026141152/http://www.sindhtoday.net/health/30687.htm |archivedate=26 October 2008 }}) was a leading Indian [artist](/source/artist). He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. He was a founder member of the [Calcutta Group](/source/Calcutta_Group), an art movement established in 1942 that did much to introduce [modernism](/source/modernism) into [Indian art](/source/Indian_art). Sen pursued his artistic training at the [Academie Andre Lhote](/source/Andre_Lhote), the [Academie la Grande Chaumiere](/source/Academie_la_Grande_Chaumiere), the [Ecole des Beaux Arts](/source/Ecole_des_Beaux_Arts), and the [Ecole des Louvre](/source/Ecole_des_Louvre) in Paris. Upon his return to India, he taught first in Bihar and then at [Jadavpur University](/source/Jadavpur_University). 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 [Rockefeller Fellowship](/source/Rockefeller_Fellowship). Sen has exhibited widely both in India and abroad, including the Calcutta Group exhibition (1944), London (1962), [São Paulo Biennale](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Biennale) (1965), [New Delhi Triennale](/source/New_Delhi_Triennale) (1968, 1971, 1975), Sweden (1984), and the [Havana Biennale](/source/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. ==See also== *[Kurchi Dasgupta](/source/Kurchi_Dasgupta) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== * Manasij Majumdar, ''Paritosh Sen: In Retrospect (Contemporary Indian Artists Series)'', Mapin Publishing (2007), {{ISBN|1-890206-35-0}} * ''Paritosh Sen (Lalit Kala series on contemporary Indian art)'', [Lalit Kala Akademi](/source/Lalit_Kala_Akademi) (1975) ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120225074003/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060505/asp/atleisure/story_6183191.asp ''Hilarious treatment of protagonists''], The Telegraph, 5 May 2006 *{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20021104155046/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/08/19/stories/2002081901080200.htm ''Sen and sensibility'']}}, The Hindu, 19 August 2002 {{Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Paritosh}} Category:1918 births Category:2008 deaths Category:Bengali people Category:Artists from Dhaka Category:Indian male painters Category:Rockefeller Fellows Category:Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi Category:Academic staff of Jadavpur University Category:Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Category:20th-century Indian painters Category:Artists from Kolkata Category:Painters from West Bengal --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Paritosh Sen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritosh_Sen) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritosh_Sen?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.