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Benodebehari Mukherjee: Blind Indian painter's forgotten scroll found after 100 years

2023-07-03 08:56
Benodebehari Mukherjee who lost his vision entirely at 53 came to define modern art in 20th Century India.
Benodebehari Mukherjee: Blind Indian painter's forgotten scroll found after 100 years

A 44 foot-long Japanese style handscroll painted by a famous Indian blind artist nearly 100 years ago has resurfaced and gone on public display for the first time in the city of his birth, Kolkata.

Benodebehari Mukherjee, born in 1904, was blind in one eye and severely myopic in the other. He lost...