S.M. Sultan - Paragraph
A renowned painter, was born on 10th August, 1923 in Narail district. He studied at the Victoria Collegiate School in Narail for five years and then joined his father who was a mason. He used to draw buildings in his spare time and thus developed a liking for art. Sultan went to Calcutta in 1938 to study Art with the monetary support of the Zaminder of his area but failed to get admission into the Government School of Art. Again with the help of another patron. Shahed Suhrawardi who was a member of the Governing body of that School. Sultan was admitted in the Art School Suhrawardi provided him accommodation in his home and the permitted him to use this own library. Sultan left the school after three years and started working as a freelance artist. He was a bohemian in nature and a wanderer. He started traveling to different places of India and drew portraits of the allied soldiers of the Second World War. His first exhibition of Art was held in Simla in 1946 but not a single piece of his work of this period survived as he was totally indifferent to preservation of his work. He returned to Narail after partition in 1947. In 1950 he went to America and held several exhibitions in New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston, and later in London. In 1951 he went Karachi to work as an art teacher at a school there. He returned to Narail in 1953 and built a school and a huge boat for children. He lived in a house full of cats and snakes, in the quiet isolation of his house. Sultan's first exhibition in Dhaka was held in 1976 and another one in 1987. He died in 1994.
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