Just about a century after Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980) enrolled as a first batch student of Kala Bhavan in Visva-Bharati (VB), Santiniketan, the central university founded by Rabindranath Tagore received an oeuvre of more than 500 artworks by possibly the only visually challenged modern master painter-muralist.
It can pave the way for the first full-fledged gallery of the artist who did not have vision in one eye and had severe myopic vision from birth. He went completely blind in his fifties following an unsuccessful cataract surgery.
30 December 2017
