Eminent painter Jogen Chowdhury died after a long battle with blood cancer at a private hospital in Kolkata on Sunday morning, hospital authorities said.
His works are displayed at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. He will inspire several generations of artists. His smile is what we will all miss. He stopped leaving home a year ago and rarely took telephone calls. He will remain immortal as a painter.
Chowdhury, a former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member, was 87. “Chowdhury had been undergoing chemotherapy since early 2025.
Expressing his condolences, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said, “I wish immortality for his soul. Noted writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, an old friend and neighbour of the painter, said, “Jogen was an open-hearted person. He was admitted in serious condition and was put on ventilator support,” a hospital official said.
He enrolled at the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata in 1955 and graduated in 1960. He became an art teacher and also worked as a designer for the state handloom board before moving to Paris in 1965 on a French government scholarship to study art.
