Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, commonly known as B. C. Sanyal lived to the remarkable age of one hundred, passing away in New Delhi on 9 January 2003. A painter, sculptor, teacher, and institution-builder, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and as a key figure who shaped art education in North India. Sanyal received his formal training at the Government College of Art, Calcutta, where he studied under noted teachers such as Percy Brown and Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury. In the 1920s he moved to Lahore and joined the Mayo School of Arts as a teacher. Before long, he established his own studio which developed into a...