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{{short description|Indian painter}}
{{Infobox Artist
| name = Atul Basu
| image =
| caption = ''Self-Portrait'', 1939
| birth_date = 22 February 1898
| birth_place = [[Mymensingh]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|07|10|1898|02|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], India
| alma_mater = [[Government College of Art and Craft|Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta]]<br>[[Royal Academy]]
| known_for = Founding the Indian Academy of Art
| nationality = Indian
}}

'''Atul Basu''' (22 February 1898 – 10 July 1977) was an Indian painter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bose, Atul |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bose%2c+Atul |website=[[The Great Soviet Encyclopedia]], 3rd Edition |publisher=[[Gale Group|The Gale Group, Inc.]] |date=1970–1979}}</ref> He was an expert in portraying realistic landscapes, portraits and village scenery. He used oil colors for painting.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Chowdhury |first=Sima Roy |year=2012 |chapter=Bose, Atul |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bose,_Atul |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Anjali Basu|author2=Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta|authorlink2=Subodh Chandra Sengupta|script-title=bn:সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান: প্রায় চার সহস্রাধিক জীবনী-সংবলিত আকর গ্রণ্থ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwwHBke-2HQC|edition=First|year=2010|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|isbn=978-81-7955-135-6|trans-title=Samsad Bengali Biographical Dictionary: A Repository Containing More Than Four Thousand Biographies|language=bn|location=Calcutta}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Atul was born in 1898 at [[Mymensingh]] in the then [[Bengal Presidency]]. He spent his childhood in Mymensingh town. He started his primary education in the National Council of Education, Mymensingh branch. Then he studied in Jubilee Art Academy of Kolkata. The syllabus of this academy was not same as other academies.<ref name=bpedia/>

A sketch of the educationist [[Asutosh Mukherjee]], 'Bengal Tiger', won Bose a scholarship from the [[University of Calcutta]] to study art at the [[Royal Academy]] in [[London]] from 1924 to 1926. While studying there, Bose was influenced by the post-impressionist [[Walter Sickert]]. He refused an invitation to help [[Mukul Dey]] decorate the pavilion at the [[British Empire Exhibition]].<ref name=MakingBritain>[http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/atul-bose Atul Bose], ''Making Britain'', [[Open University]].</ref>

==Career==
Bose helped [[Hemen Majumdar]] to establish Indian Academy of Art in 1919. He was the founder member of the academy and he had also been the principal of the Government Art School, Calcutta during 1945–1948. Afterwards he became the director of the [[Government College of Art & Craft]].<ref name=bpedia/>

Bose painted portraits from the original collections at the [[Windsor Castle]] and the [[Buckingham Palace]] under the commission of the Indian government. His notable works include ''Sphinx'' (oil on plywood) and ''Self Portrait'' (1945).<ref name=bpedia/>

In 1921, Bose along with Bhabani Charan Laha set up Indian School of Oriental Art.<ref name=bpedia/>

[[Rabindra Bharati University|Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta]] honored Bose with a [[D.Litt]] degree in 1970.<ref name=bpedia/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.artnet.com/artists/atul-bose/past-auction-results Atul Bose] at [[Artnet.com]]
*{{Banglapedia|Bose,_Atul}}
*{{OL author|567182A}}

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