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Mukul Dey
Indian artist (1895-1989)
Mukul Chandra Dey (23 July 1895 – 1 March 1989) was one of five children of Purnashashi Devi and Kula Chandra Dey.[1] He was a student of Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan and is considered as a pioneer of drypoint-etching in India.
The entire family of Mukul Dey had artistic talents, the brother Manishi Dey was a well-known painter, and his two sisters, Annapura and Rani Chanda, were accomplished in arts and crafts as well.[2]
Mukul Dey was married to Bina Roy, who was from Khanakul, Bengal.
They had one daughter named Manjari, whom they affectionately called Bukuma. Manjari was later married to Shantanu Ukil, a leading painter of the Bengal School of Art.[3]
Early years
He was the first Indian artist to travel abroad for the purpose of studying printmaking as an art.[4] While in Japan in 1916, Mukul Dey studied under Yokoyama Taikan and Kanzan Shimomura at Tokyo and Yokohama.
At Yokohama Rabind