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Eighty autumns could not dim his zest for work. And it took death to finally take eminent painter Suhas Roy away from his canvas easel and paint brushes.
It marked the end of a journey of an artist whose works were taken by Indira Gandhi Japanese prime minster Nakasone Modern Art Gallery John and Dixon Collections USA to name a few.
A product of Government Art College who later became its principal Roy had many feathers in his cap. Roy learnt the art of murals from Ecole des beaux artParis.He went to Paris on a scholarship from the French government in the mid ’60s to learn graphics art from S .W. Hayter of Ateleier 17 and never looked back.
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But for all the high profile takers for his paintings Roy a lifelong member of the Society of Contemporary Artists never lived in an ivory tower.
Memories of the struggle for existence after he had crossed the newly set up borders in 1947 with his family and settled down to Haringhata with his family appeared in his paintings.
Nor did he overlook the Bangladesh War and the upsurge that made an unfulfilled promise to make the ’70s a decade of liberation.
Even the devastating flood which swept the entire in 1978 found place in the Disaster series of his paintings. He will be missed.
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