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Jan - Feb, 2025

Suddhasattwa Basu

Born in 1956, Suddhasattwa Basu, a painter, illustrator and animation film maker studied Fine Art (drawing and painting, life, nature, mural) at the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. His painterly skills and sensitivity find expression in magazine and book illustration as well as animation film-making. He designed and illustrated Target magazine from 1981 till 1985, The Economic Times in 1990, Business Today and India Today Plus between 1992 and 1997.

He has illustrated more than 60 books to date, which include Delhi through the Seasons and Nature Watch, both by Khushwant Singh, To Live in Magic by Ruskin Bond, The Homecoming by Vijaya Sulaiman, The Story of Garuda by Roberto Calasso, Mahabharat by Namita Gokhale. He has authored and illustrated The Song of a Scarecrow, 1993, Whatever You Give, 2009, and Ravan Remedy, 2013.

He directed and animated the country’s first animation tele-serial, Ghayab Aya, 1990. His animation shorts have featured in several national and international film festivals.

Suddhasattwa Basu has been visiting faculty at the College of Art, Delhi since 1998, and the NID, Ahmedabad between 2014 and 2016. He lives and works in Delhi.

Available works
Previously exhibited works

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Dance II

Drawing pencil on somerset paper

76 x 56cm

CODE: SUDB / 4

The Lone Kingfisher

Watercolour on paper

51 x 36cm

CODE: SUDB / 9

Purple Chrysanthemums

Watercolour on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 10

A sunbird in lantana bush

Watercolour on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 11

Spider Plant

Watercolour on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 12

Ipomea in Bloom

Watercolour on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 13

Kakjangha

Watercolour on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 14

Cassia Alata, study

Watercolour on paper

26.5 x 23cm

CODE: SUDB / 15

Verbena (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 16

Adeniums and a Treepie

Watercolor on paper

61 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 17

Desert Rose (Adenium)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 18

The Last Sparrow

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 19

Chrysanthemums (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 20

Chorisia in winter

Watercolor on paper

61 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 21

Chorisia (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 22

Ipomea

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 23

Ipomea (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 24

Buttercups (Renunculus) and a Hoopoe

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 25

Buttercup

Watercolor on paper

20 x 23cm

CODE: SUDB / 26

Changing Hue of Petunias

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 27

Chrysanthemums (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 28

Aparajeeta and a Drongo

Watercolor on paper

61 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 29

Aparajeeta - Study 1

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 30

Climbing Rose

Oil on canvas

183 x 122cm

CODE: SUDB / 31

Tecoma (study)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 32

Abode - A Mynah in the Tecoma Bush

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 33

Pomegranate

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 34

Pomegranate (study II)

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 35

Renunculas

Watercolor on paper

20 x 23cm

CODE: SUDB / 36

Buttercups (Renunculus)

Watercolor on paper

30 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 37

Bigonia II

Watercolor on paper

20 x 29cm

CODE: SUDB / 38

Bigonias and a Sun Bird

Watercolor on paper

32 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 39

January

Oil on canvas

183 x 122cm

CODE: SUDB / 40

Coral and a Coppersmith

Watercolor on paper

61 x 41cm

CODE: SUDB / 41