ARTIST PROFILE · SARASWATI FOUNDATION COLLECTION
Lalu Prasad Shaw
Painter and printmaker whose stylised figurative works draw on Kalighat pat and Company School traditions, centring Bengali middle-class life.
Awards & Honours
National Award for Graphic Art, 1971.
Award for Graphic Art and Drawing, 1978 — per Ganges Art Gallery.
Birla Academy Award for Graphic Art, 1976 — per Art Intaglio.
Biography
Born in 1937 in Suri, Bengal.
He earned a Diploma in Painting from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, in 1959.
Working in gouache, tempera, and graphic techniques, Shaw developed a distinctive figurative language rooted in Bengali visual traditions and everyday middle-class subject matter.
Exhibitions & Residencies
Selected exhibitions include Looking In (2011–12), Graceful Silence (2011), and Myriad Minded Artist (2008), as listed by Ganges Art Gallery.
International biennales include the 2nd British Biennale, London (1970), the 7th Paris Biennale (1971), and the Norwegian Print Biennales (1974 and 1978), per JNAF.
Selected Works
No confirmed Foundation-held work could be matched exactly, so this section is left as text only.