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Chronology

Progressive Artists’ Group established

Significance

2

Category 1

Group Founded

Category 2

Year

1947/12

Region(venue)

India

Region(content)

City

Content

F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, H. A. Gade, S. K. Bakre, K. H. Ara, and S. H. Raza form the Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG) in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). Later, V. Gaitonde, Krishen Khanna, Tyeb Mehta, and Akbar Padamsee joined.
They held the first group exhibition in 1949 at Bombay Art Society’s Salon.

Participating artist(s)

Link

FM No.

2077