Bimal Dasgupta, Composition, 1956. Oil on canvas, 23.5 × 29.5 in. Signed and dated “B. Dasgupta 56” (top right)
Courtesy: Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi
Established in 1936, the Dhoomimal Art Gallery, one of India’s oldest art galleries emerged from the very needs of the artists of Delhi. To buy art supplies, they frequented the store of Ram Chand Jain, Dhoomimal’s proprietor, fondly remembered as Ram Babu. He encouraged artists to take the supplies they needed; in exchange they began leaving him with some of their work. The mezzanine above Dhoomimal Dharamdas began to function as a gallery for artists to show and selltheir works. In time, Ram Babu began to showcase the works of the emerging Delhi Silpi Chakra artists becoming an intrinsic part of the Delhi art circle in his own inimitable way. Today, more than eight decades later, Dhoomimal continues its journey by reaching out to a newer generation of artists and art lovers.
Bimal DasGupta, born in 1917, India
Bimal DasGupta
Ravi Chaurasiya
Hemant Rao
Hem Raj
Dheeraj Yadav
Uday Jain, Director
New Delhi, India
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