EXHIBITION ON PAINTINGS BY HIRACHAND DUGAR

From the collection of
Indian Museum & Rabindra Bharati Museum

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Sri Viren J. Shah
Governor of West Bengal
has kindly consented to inaugurate
on Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 5-30 p.m.

Open daily till 18th April, 11-30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
    Hirachnad Dugar was born in the year 1898 in a Jain family which migrated from Rajasthan to Jiaganj in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. He had the credit of being one among tyhe first batch of students in Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan. He passed away at the holy city of Palitana in Gujarat on May3, 1951.

Thirtytwo wash, water colour, tempera and drawings executed between 1924 and 1950 by the artist which now form the collection of the Indian Museum and Rabindra Bharati Museum at Kilkata represent a variety of themes.

The exhibition highlights religious architecture like Jain temples at Vaibharagiri, Satrunjay temple, the shrine of Keshariyaji in Mewar, Portugese church at Hooghly; Mahavir-janani and mother fondling a child;
waterbodies like Ganga at Jiaganj, Dal Lake in Kashmir, Rajgirkund,
Fatehsagar lake at Udaypur; portraits of old man and child as also a nawab of Murshidabad painted on ivory ; landscape as well as some known characters like a Panditani and Charandas chor.

 
 

 His art
"Hirachand Dugar's work belongs to neo - Bengal scholl and yet he does not really belong to it. Essentially he is watercolourist and uses both the British transparent as well as the continental opaque techniques. His washes are light and colours luminous. Sometimes the tempered the colours with emulsions.

His composition is well struuctured and balanced with points and counter - points. His details are meticulous but they never become illustrative or ornamental."

(Quoted form Sandip Sarkar's essay on Hirachand Dugar)

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