Friday 4th March 2011
India-born sculptor on the academy's shopping list
The Scotsman
Cash raised by the Royal Scottish Academy's sale of LS Lowry's The Hawker's Cart will allow it to work on acquiring pieces from a target list of 59 artists and former members.
One is Fanindra Nath Bose, an Indian sculptor born in 1888 who came to live and work in Scotland and became a member of the RSA but drowned in a Peebleshire loch in 1926.
"He was very, very good and would have been an incredibly important sculptor. But he died aged younger than 40, which in artists terms is very early in his career," said the RSA's collections curator, Joanna Soden.
"We have nothing by him and he is possibly the first non-European member of the artists' institution, which is really important."