From the fringes to the frame: Why you haven’t heard of the Modernist Prafulla Dahanukar
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From the fringes to the frame: Why you haven’t heard of the Modernist Prafulla Dahanukar

Hindustan Times  

Gauri and Gopika, Prafulla Dahanukar’s daughters, vividly remember a retrospective of her work, held at the Jehangir Art Gallery, in 2014. But “if we look at how the narrative of Indian modern art is written, it seems as though only men were artists,” says Savita Apte, an art historian, former consultant with the auction house Sotheby’s, and founder-director of the art fair Art Dubai. Dahanukar’s journey as a painter began at the Sir JJ School of Art, where many members of the Progressive Artists Group, studied too. “In the late 1960s, Dahanukar began a practice of creating large murals for residential and commercial buildings, including many modern apartment blocks built for the wealthy, in place of old bungalows, in South Bombay.

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