Pratima Devi (painter)

Pratima Devi
Born 1893
Nationality Indian/Bengali
Known for Traditional Dance, Painting

Pratima Devi (1893–1969) was an Indian Bengali artist, most famous for her relationship and collaboration with Rabindranath Tagore.

Pratima Tagore studied art under painter Nandalal Bose and Rabindranath Tagore, her father-in-law.[1] Rabindranath encouraged her to pursue her artistic talents.[2] She exhibited her work at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, run by the Tagores, from 1915 onwards.[3] She then moved to Paris, where she studied the Italian "wet fresco" method.[3]

In India, she was in charge of the dance curriculum at the dance school founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan.[4] She is credited as one of the pivotal influences that shaped Tagore's little-known dance-dramas.[5]

Early life, marriage and death

Pratima Devi was born in India in 1893, before the partition of India and Pakistan.[6] She was first married to Nilanath Mukhopadhyay as a child bride. When Mukhopadhyay died, Rabindranath Tagore arranged the 17 year old Pratima's marriage to his son, Rathindranath Tagore.[6] Rathindranath and Pratima had one adopted daughter- Nandini, better known by her nickname - Pupe.[6] They divorced after Rabindranath Tagore's death in 1941. Pratima died in 1969.

References

  1. ↑ "Pratima Devi (1893-1969)". Visva-Bharati. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  2. ↑ Tagore, Rabindranath (2011). I Won't Let You Go: Selected Poems Ed: Ketaki Kushari Dyson. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143416142.
  3. 1 2 Mitter, Partha (2007). The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-1947. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861893185.
  4. ↑ Dutt, Sarkar Munsi, Bishnupriya, Urmimala (2010). Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9788132106128.
  5. ↑ "Tagore's dance legacy and its relevance". The Hindu. 2011-12-26. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  6. 1 2 3 "Rabindranath's Tagore's Descendants".
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