G Ghose , Watercolour 'Fishing India' , Dated 1927.

Watercolour 'Fishing India' signed and dated by G Ghose 1927. A very early work of the artist. Currently being framed in a period frame. Height 23 cms and Width 40 cms

(1913-1980) was an Indian painter from West Bengal. In 1943, he was one of the founders of the Calcutta Group, perhaps the first group of modernist painters in India.After obtaining a diploma in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Jaipur in 1935, he formally trained in sculpture, from Government College of Art, Madras, where he studied under Debi Prasad Roy Choudhuri, known for his realistic style in his paintings and sculptures.Ghose was drawn to the pictorial vocabulary developed by European Expressionists and Cubists to depict nature. Ghose reworked the genre of landscape painting, investing it with expressionistic qualities. He travelled extensively within India to paint his landscapes. Ghose was adept with several mediums, and known especially for his ingenious handling of watercolour. He also worked with tempera, pen and ink, and brush and pastel.

He was one of the founder members of the well-known Calcutta Group (1943). Ghose taught at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, in Kolkata from 1940-45 and then joined the faculty of the Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (then affiliated with the University Of Calcutta, where he taught architectural drawing. He was also the joint secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata.

Ghose died in 1980. His works can be seen at the Birla Academy Of Art and Culture, Kolkata, and theNational Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

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