Rare painting of Netaji on display at RMIC

Kolkata: A rare painting of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on ivory strip and silk screen has been put on display at the museum of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture to celebrate his 122nd birth anniversary and 75 years of Azad Hind government.

The painting of Netaji clad in dhoti and punjabi with white new cut shoes attracts a lot of visitors. It was made by Ishwari Prasad Barma during the time when Subhash Chandra was elected as the president of Indian National Congress at Haripura in 1938.

Barma was an important painter of Patna Painter Group. He came in contact with Abanindranath Tagore and started living in Kolkata. In 1906, he was appointed as a teacher in the government art school in an initiative of Tagore.

His students included Nandalal Bose, Asit Haldar, Durgesh Chandra Sinha, Kshitindranath Majumdar and Samarendranath Gupta among others. Barman was an expert on ivory strip painting on silk screen.