Jamini Roy’s earlier residence at 1/2B Ananda Kumar Chatterjee Lane (currently abandoned) in North Kolkata, where he lived for sixteen years. This was the home visited by Rabindranath Tagore and patrons like Maie Casey (wife of the then Bengal governor) and where he found success. The family was residents here till December 1949 when they moved to their current residence at Ballygunge Place East.
View of the lane (Used in a few of his landscapes - though some of the homes seen are newer in construction)
Lot #3, Prinseps Autumn Auction, 2017
Descendants of Ananda Kumar Chatterjee still reside in the same lane, with photographs of portraits done by Jamini Roy of her family (Tarek Nath & Bani Nath) as remembrances - the original artworks have been sold a few decades ago.
Geeta Chatterjee
