Benode Behari Mukherjee

1904–1980

*Still Life with Key* c.1965
Courtesy Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation
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Biography

Benode Behari Mukherjee (7 February 1904 – 11 November 1980) was an Indian artist from West Bengal state. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. He was one of the earliest artists in modern India to take up to murals as a mode of artistic expression. All his murals depict a subtle understanding of environmental through pioneering architectural nuances.

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