Satish Gujral - Artist Info

About Satish Gujral

  • Biography

    "Satish Gujral, Versatile Indian Artist, Is Dead at 94," Online Obituary, The New York Times, May 10, 2020, by Neil Genzlinger.

    After losing his hearing as a child, he became one of his country’s best-known painters, sculptors and architects.

    Satish Gujral, one of India’s best-known artists, was always game to try something new.

    His early paintings reflected the violence and displacement that accompanied the partitioning of India in 1947 into the countries of India and Pakistan. Later he switched to murals and sculpture. He painted some portraits. And, though not formally trained as an architect, he designed notable buildings, most famously the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi.

    His exploratory spirit was evident on a...

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