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Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury

No automatic alt text available. Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury, was born on 15 June 1899 at Tejhat, in Rangpur in the undivided Bengal of the British India, and did his academic studies from home. He learnt painting of his own and later with Abanindranath Tagore, the renowned Bengali painter and his earlier paintings showed influence of his teacher. Though when he started to feel the inclination of Bengal School Painting in his work, immediately he tried to leave and started to do of his own. He was a realistic and authentic water colorist with a dreamy view and a great thoughtful sculptor. He used to use water colour as a touchy medium and very little quantity of colours were used in his paintings. But in opposite he had done very big sculptures with multiple figures to narrate a story.
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In sculpture he was inspired by the Impressionist works of the modern Western sculpture, Auguste Rodin. Roy Choudhury’s forte was casting rather than carving. He is known for portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, his notable sculptures are Triumph of Labour (statue located at Marina beach Chennai) and Martyrs’ Memorial (Bhopal).
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He was the founder chairman of Lalit Kala Academy. He also served as president of the UNESCO Art Seminar conducted in 1955 at Tokyo and the Nikhil Bharat Bangiya Sahitya Sammilani staged at Chennai. May be he is the most travelled and Indian sculptor served for most of the Indian Premier Art Institute.
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He has left us on 15 September 1975.

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