MANISHI DEY | DAUGHTER OF THE SOIL

Acquired directly from the artist by Ms. Sonia Melnikova-Raich and Mr. David Raich in Bangalore, India in 1957

Acquired from the Raich Family 

Manishi Dey, younger brother of Mukul Dey, was a student of Nandalal Bose and Abanindranath Tagore at Santiniketan where he mastered the methods of the Bengal School, namely the wash technique and woodcuts, as seen in his early works. In the late 1940s, his interaction with the members of the Progressive Artists Group of Bombay resulted in a break from the visual idioms popularized by Bengal school and marked a new phase of experimentation with medium such as oils on canvas.

Dey’s paintings, graphics and drawings have found their way in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, and the Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka.