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Chintamoni Kar
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Sculptor
Place of birth
Location(s)
SW7 3RA
United Kingdom
Place of death
Kolkata, India
Date of time spent in Britain
1945–56
About
Chintamoni Kar was a renowned Indian sculptor. He first trained at Abanindranath Tagore's Oriental Art Society and learnt sculpting from Giridhari Mahapatra of Orissa and Victor Giovanelli of Italy. In 1938 Kar went to Paris to improve his sculpting technique and then to London in 1946. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Kar won the silver medal for sculpting at the 1948 London Olympics. Kar returned to West Bengal in 1956.
Kar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1972. In 2000, he was awarded France’s highest civilian honour – conferred on him by the country’s ambassador.
Classical Indian Sculpture, 300 BC to 500 (London: A Tiranti, 1950)
Indian Metal Sculpture (London: A. Tiranti, 1952)
Chintamoni Kar, with an introduction by Mulk Raj Anand (New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1965)
(with Tinkari Mukherjee) A Short Guide Book. Art Section, Indian Museum, Calcutta (Calcutta: Indian Museum Calcutta, 1958)
Windsor, Alan, British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
