Pranab Ranjan Ray has been educated at Santiniketan, Kolkata University and with a degree from the Indian Statistical Institute. His fondness for the arts developed during his university days as he viewed exhibitions and through interactions with artists and he started to write about art when he was studying for an M.A. Later he gained recognition as an art critic when he started to write for the Lalit Kala Academy's journal in 1960s. He extensively worked on artists like Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Ganesh Pyne, among many others.

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Sketches of Jamini Roy

by Pranab Ranjan Ray

Published in Lalit Kala Contemporary, Issue 31, 1981, pp. 23-28.

An unique collection of twenty small drawings and five temperas by Jami Roy was brought out by the late painter’s son Amiya Roy and was exhibited by Victor Banerjee, at the latter’s newly opened Calcutta Art Gallery, as the establishment’s

Reflections on the Art of Ram Kinkar

by Pranab Ranjan Ray

It was 1941 and the place was Santiniketan-the bastion of the little understood but much maligned and evidently the so-called Bengal Revivalist School-a curious art object in glossy green cement came into existence to remain in full-view of everyone for times to come. Nobody in India had ever seen

Pranab Ranjan Ray

Sketches of Jamini Roy

Reflections on the Art of Ram Kinkar

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