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Location :-
Jaipur House, Near India Gate, New Delhi
Timings :- 10.00 am To 5.00 pm (Closed on
Mondays).
National Gallery of Modern Art
Located very close to India Gate, this
building was earlier the residential palace of the Maharaja of Jaipur. It
exhibits around 4,000 paintings, graphics, and sculptures of modern artists. The
gallery arranges special exhibitions for those who wish to exhibit their works.
The National Gallery of Modern Art was inaugurated on March 29, 1954 at Jaipur
House, New Delhi. It is the only institution of it's kind in India, run and
administered by the Government of India. It represents the evolution of the
changing art forms through the passage of more than a hundred years starting
from about 1857. In The stately Jaipur House (location for the National Gallery
of Modern Art) are on display paintings, sculpture and graphic art dating from
the mid 19th century to the present day. The school is represented by
Abanindranath Tagore, especially his Advent of the Rainy Season, Twilight and
Landscape: Nandalal Bose, Ramkumar Kinkar, Rabindranash Tagore, Binod Behari
Mukherjee among others. The foremost responsibility of the National Gallery of
Modern Art is to ensure quality and set and maintain a standard of excellence
that pervades all it's activities. Despite numerous handicaps modern Indian
artists have made impressive progress, especially in the last two decades.
Collections
The collection also includes sculpture, graphics and paintings by international
modern artists such as Jacob Epstein, Giorgio de Chirico, Peter Lubarda and Kozo
Mio. On view also is Amrita Shergill's Self Portrait, Two women, Musicians,
Bathers and Jamini Roy's Krishna and Balarama, Kirian, Yasoda and Krishna. Works
by major contemporary artists like M F Husain, Vivan Sundaram, J Swaminathan,
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakhar are also on display.
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