Born in 1933 in Ulpur (now Bangladesh), Sarbari Roy Chowdhury graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, in 1956, and later studied under the sculptors Prodosh Dasgupta and Sankho Chaudhuri at the M.S. University, Baroda. Between 1960 and 1962, he served as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Indian Art College, Kolkata. Influenced by Indian sculptors like Prodosh Dasgupta as well as Western greats like Rodin, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury found his inspiration in Hindustani classical music. His works, while pictorial are also largely abstract in their style – perhaps a result of his travels to the Academia de Belle Arti, Florence, in 1962, where he met Giacometti and Henry Moore in person, who along with Sankho ...