Sarbari Roy Choudhury

Born in Ulpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), Sarbari Roy Chowdhury graduated in Sculpture from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta; and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. During his study tour in Europe, Roy Choudhury visited Paris and Italy, and was able to meet two great masters, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine, who appreciated his small bronzes. He studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy; and interacted with Marino Marini and Henry Moore. Following his return to India, he joined the Department of Sculpture at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

Roy Choudhury was a connoisseur of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, and collected rare albums and recordings. His interest and engagement with music is evident from his portraits of renowned singers depicted in the act of performance, such as the intensely animated facial expressions of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1971) and Siddheshwari Devi (1964).

Select Works

Exhibitions

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  Sculpture as body in the mirror of desire

  Sarbari Roy Choudhury,

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  Synchrome – Masters

  A Ramachandran, AA Almelkar, Akbar Padamsee, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Bikash Bhattacharjee, C. Bhattacharya, Dharmanarayan, FN Souza, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Gopal Ghose, Himmat Shah, J Swaminathan, Jamini Roy, Jogen Chowdhury, KCS Paniker, KG Subramanyan, Krishen Khanna, Laxman Shrestha, Manjit Bawa, Meera Mukherjee, MF Hussain, MV Dhurandhar, Nandalal Bose, Nikhil Biswas, Paramjit Singh, Paritosh Sen, Prodosh Dasgupta, Ram Kumar, Ramkinkar Baij, Sailoz Mookherjea, Sanat Kar, Sankho Chaudhuri, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, SH Raza, Shakti Burman, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Somnath Hore, Suhas Roy, Sunil Das, VS Gaitonde,

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  Nirmiti – A Constructed Object

  Bimal Kundu, Himmat Shah, KS Radhakrishnan, Meera Mukherjee, Nagji Patel, P R Daroz, Prodosh Dasgupta, Rajendra Tiku, Sankho Chaudhuri, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Somnath Hore,

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  8 Bengal masters : Miracles of Existence

  Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Meera Mukherjee, Paritosh Sen, Sanat Kar, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Somnath Hore,

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  India Art Fair 2015

  Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Ganesh Haloi, Jayashree Chakravarty, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, SH Raza, Sunayani Devi,

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  Contours & Volumes

  Prodosh Dasgupta, Sarbari Roy Choudhury,

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  Contours & Volumes

  Prodosh Dasgupta, Sarbari Roy Choudhury,

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  Masters Show

  Akbar Padamsee, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Dharmanarayan, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Himmat Shah, Jamini Roy, Jogen Chowdhury, Meera Mukherjee, Paritosh Sen, Prodosh Dasgupta, Sanat Kar, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Satish Gujral, SH Raza, Shakti Burman, Shuvaprasanna, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Somnath Hore, Suhas Roy, Sunil Das, Thota Vaikuntham,