Manishi Dey

Acquired directly from the artist by Ms. Sonia Melnikova-Raich and Mr. David Raich in Bangalore, India in 1957
Acquired from the Raich Family 

There are two small areas of loss to pigment in the upper left corner, one with fine craquelere. Two scratches are visible in the upper right corner. The main figure of the woman is in near perfect condition. The yellow and orange details on the figure appear more saturated in the print catalog.
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Manishi Dey, younger brother of Mukul Dey, was a student of Nandalal Bose and Abanindranath Tagore at Santiniketan where he mastered the techniques of the Bengal School, namely the wash technique and woodcuts, as seen in his early works. In the late 1940s, his interaction with the members of the Progressive Artists Group of Bombay resulted in a break from the visual idioms popularized by Bengal school and marked a new phase of experimentation with medium such as oils on canvas.
Dey’s paintings, graphics and drawings have found their way in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, and the Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka.