BIREN DE (1926-2011)

Biren De's paintings from the 1950s "are of stylized figures in a compressed space. The figures and the environment are bound together by a strong grid of black lines, the colours, which are filled in are militant and cannot be ignored. They are either somber or luminous; the figures are sharply modeled and have a peg like three-dimensionality. Each part of the figures is distinct and to a certain degree a symbol of itself, yet it is united and belongs to a whole.” (J. Appaswamy, Lalit Kala Contemporary, no. 6, April 1967, pp. 28-30)