Sarojini Naidu
Title Sarojini Naidu
Accession Number R3177
Museum Name Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Gallery Name NA
Object Type Painting
Medium Oil on Canvas
Main Artist Sunil Madhav Sen
Artist's Nationality Indian
Artist's Life Date / Bio Data

(1910-1979) He was basically a self taught artist, from 1937-38 he Graduated in Law and started legal practice.

Visited the studios of Abanindranath Tagore, J.P.Gangooly, Atul Bose, received lessons and encouragement from them. More than two years he worked in the studio of Hemen Majumdar, where he completed his apprenticeship of portrait painting.

Provenance Prepared by the Trustees of Victoria Memorial
Origin Place Purulia, West Bengal
Period / Year of Work 1968
Dimensions 152.5 x 114 cm
Brief Description

Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) born at Hyderabad, where her father Dr. Aghorenath Chattopadhyay was serving, she passed the Entrance Examination with credit when she was only 12 and obtained a state scholarship to go to England. She wrote poems in English from her girlhood and received encouragement from competent English critics like Edmund Gosse and Arthur Symons. On her return from England, she married Dr. Gobindo R. Naidu.

She participated in Indian politics actively from 1915 as an associate of Mahatma Gandhi. Her great gift of oratory helped the national movement to a great extent. she was elected President of the Kanpur session of the Indian National congress in 1925. In 1928 she visited the U.S. A. to win the good will of the American people for the Indian struggle for independence. In 1930 she joined the Civil Disobedience Movement and was arrested.

She was with Mahatma Gandhi in the Salt Satyagraha movement. She joined the Round table Conference in London in 1931. In 1947 she was appointed Governor of Uttar Pradesh which post she held till her death. Her books of poems include Bird of time, the Broken Wing, the golden threshold and The Songs of India.