Kalighat Market

An important painter from Bengal who studied art in Calcutta and was a teacher in Santiniketan, Radha Charan Bagchi’s preferred domain of mythological and historical retellings contributed greatly to modern art in India. Bagchi was also a printmaker of repute, evident from the immense detailing that he achieves in Kalighat Market despite the complexity of the printmaking technique of lithography. He captures a bustling day in the marketplace that’s teeming with people, mostly women sellers, and captures in detail the wares, utensils among other elements.