Benode Behari Mukherjee was born in Behala on February 7, 1904. The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) was scheduled to celebrate his birth centenary with an extensive exhibition of his works in March.
That did not materialise because funds were not forthcoming and there was hardly any time to organise a major show that was to be curated by Vadodara-based artist Gulam Sheikh and Santiniketan-based art historian Shiv Kumar. Now, in all probability, the exhibition will be held in August.
The exhibition will be a representative show of more than 300 works collected from north India, Calcutta, Santiniketan, Vadodara and Najibabad, where the artist had worked.
It is a very ambitious project that has the possibility of travelling outside the country.
