Leon Underwood
Portrait of Mukul Dey, 1922
Mixed media on paper
8 x 6 inches
Signed and dated
£1200.00
Provenance
Private collection
Note: Mukul Chandra Dey was the first Indian artist to travel abroad to study printmaking. First, he went to Japan, then America. He spent 1917-20 in India and arrived in London, to study under Frank Short and Muirhead Bone - both with a huge reputation for their graphic art - as well as under the redoubtable Henry Tonks at the Slade. It may have been the latter who recommended that Dey should join Leon Underwood's Brook Green School.