In conversation with the exhibition titled A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle at the Royal Academy of Art in London (31 October 2025–24 February 2026), we’re delighted to present a selection of artworks from private, institutional and the gallery’s own collections that highlight the legacy of the renowned Mukherjee family: the acclaimed Santiniketan pedagogue and artist Benodebehari Mukherjee (1904–1980), his wife Leela Mukherjee (1915–2003) and their daughter, the internationally celebrated sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015).
The practices of these three consummate artists are significant for the way they spoke to and shaped Indian art since the early twentieth century all the way into the twenty-first century – whether it was the making of a contextual modernism in dialogue with international practices, path-breaking experiments with materials via an integrated approach to art and craft, articulations of indigenous identity and, equally, the foregrounding of a powerful feminist contemporary practice.
