Gopal Ghose

Ghose was adept with several mediums, and known especially for his ingenious handling of watercolour. He also worked with tempera, pen and ink, and brush and pastel. He travelled extensively within India to paint his landscapes. Ghose was drawn to the pictorial vocabulary developed by European Expressionists and Cubists to depict nature. Ghose reworked the genre of landscape painting, investing it with expressionistic qualities. Gopal Ghose was one of the founders of the Calcutta Group perhaps the first group of modernist painters in India. His works can be seen at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Ghose died in 1980.