Citizen Gallery :The Gandhys of chemould and the birth of Modern art in Bombay

Now a byword in the art world, the story of Gallery Chemould begins in the 1940s when Kekoo Gandhy decided to set up a picture-framing store on Princess Street. To this store, Chemould Frames, came the likes of K.H. Ara, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza, and others who called themselves the Progressive Artists Group. Husain sold his first canvas from that very window. Kekoo Gandhy brought in the few rich buyers there were in those days including the scientist Homi Bhabha and the industrialist ...See More