Delhi Art Gallery has acquired the 75-year-old Jamini Roy house in Kolkata to open India’s first Private Single-artist Museum. DAG has taken the acquisition of the historic home of India’s most loved modernist, National Treasure Artist Jamini Roy, for the express purpose of creating India’s first world-class private single-artist museum and cultural resource centre on the life, work and times of this pioneering artist.
India has a lacuna of professionally run private art museums and there are no professionally run single-artist museums in the country, a gap that DAG hopes to fill with the restoration of the 75-year-old historical house with the help of conservation architects and designers to open next year.
According to Ashish Anand, CEO and managing director of DAG, “This is the single-most important project undertaken by DAG in its three decades. For too long, art has been treated in this country like a tradeable commodity but we at DAG, as custodians of India’s…