Jehangir Sabavala, Indian artist, died he was 89.

Jehangir Sabavala  was an Indian painter died he was 89..

(23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011)

Early life and education

Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala was born to an affluent Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.^[5][6] His mother belonged to the aristocratic Cowasjee Jehangir family. He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai's Sir J. J. School of Art in 1944. Thereafter he went to Europe and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, (1945-47), and in Academie Andre Lhote, Paris (1948-51), the Académie Julian (1953-54), and finally at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1957. 

Career

Sabavala did not allow archives of his 12 scrapbooks on materials from the early 1940s to the 2000 online.^[8] Arun Khopkar's film on Sabavala's life and art, Colours of Absence, won the National Award in 1994.^[9] In 2010, another film about his life was made, The Inheritance of Light: Jehangir Sabavala. His last solo exhibition, 'Ricorso', was held at the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2008.^[10]

Personal life

Jehangir was married to Shirin Dastur, whom he met at the London School of Economics.

Awards

• Padma Shri by the Government of India - 1977 ^[11]
• Lalit Kala Ratna, the Fellowship of Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, by the President of India - 2007

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