From Inner Eye to After Sight: Benode Behari Mukherjee in London

Tracing the journey of artistic engagements with Indian Modernist artist Benode Behari Mukherjee’s works, starting from Satyajit Ray’s 1982 documentary ‘Inner Eye’ to a 2020 exhibition ‘After Sight’ in London, this article reassesses scholarly and encounters Behari’s consciousness light international art movements artist’s lifelong search for an ideal form. The role nature development his uniqueness ingenuity is discussed; as has often been erroneously imagined metropolis-centric artist, thereby also bringing focus broad subject significance pastoral idyll Bengali Modernism modern South Asian consciousness. In piece, trajectory reception works drawn.