Untitled
1965 · Cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper, printed fabric, chord, and pencil on board
15 3/16 × 10 3/16" (38.6 × 25.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Benode Behari Mukherjee
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6
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Benode Behari Mukherjee was an Indian painter and printmaker whose work synthesized modernist abstraction with Bengali artistic traditions. Active from the 1930s through the 1970s, he developed a distinctive visual language combining geometric forms with calligraphic gesture, often drawing on themes of spirituality and the Indian landscape. His prints and paintings occupied a singular position in postwar Indian modernism, neither purely abstract nor narrative, but atmospheric and contemplative in mood.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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