Artist Signatures

Somnath Hore

Somnath Hore (1921 - 2006) was active/lived in India.  Somnath Hore is known for Printmaking and sculpture with a focus on humanism and social issues.

Somnath Hore was born in a village called Barama in Chittagong in present day Bangladesh in 1921. While Hore was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into the Government College of Art & Craft. Somnath Hore passed away in 2006. Between the years 1954 to 1967, Hore handled a number of jobs in various capacities. From 1954 to 1958 he was a lecturer at the Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship in Calcutta. Thereafter, till 1967, he held posts like the "in-charge of the Graphic section" at the Delhi College of Art, visiting faculty at the MS University in Baroda and the head of the Graphic Art department of Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati. In 1960, he became a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists.

From 1974, Hore began doing bronze sculptures. "Mother with Child", a large sculpture that paid homage to the people's struggle in Vietnam, was stolen   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2173 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 112 auction lots for Somnath Hore (of which 88 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Somnath Hore as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Somnath Hore in 0 of its research Essays. Somnath Hore has 1 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Somnath Hore available:    Rameshwar Broota,  Gaganendranath Tagore,  Nalini Malani,  Ramkinkar Baij,  Jagdish Swaminathan,  Sailoz Mukherjea,  Nilima Sheikh,  Imran Qureshi,  Alwar Balasubramaniam,  Gulam Rasool Santosh,  Sankho Chaudhuri,  Attingal Ramachandran,  Krishen Khanna,  Sudhir Patwardhan,  Bikash Bhattacharjee,  Meera Mukherjee,  Prabhakar Barwe,  Amrita Sher-Gil,  Akbar Padamsee,  Jayashri Chakravarty,  Arup Das,  Jeram Patel,  Aisha Khalid,  Baiju Parthan