Painter and former Rajya Sabha member Jogen Chowdhury dies at the age of 87 in Kolkata

25 October 2026

Jogen Chowdhury, one of the best known painters of modern India, has died in Kolkata at the age of 87. He graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata and studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1967. His work is described as blending traditional Indian aesthetics with a modernist sensibility, and he was part of the new phase of modern Indian art that emerged in the 1960s. He served as curator of the art gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan and in 2019 opened Charubasona, a museum to house his own body of work. He was a former member of the Rajya Sabha.