His painting, titled Day Dreaming, sold for a record Rs 2.95 crore at a Sotheby's auction. But what do you really know about him? Wikipedia says that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogen_Chowdhury">Jogen Chowdhury</a> is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. He lives and works in Santiniketan. He graduated from the Government College of Art &amp; Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris in the year 1967. <a href="http://www.paletteartgallery.com/artistbiography.asp?artistid=15">This</a> site says that Jogen Chowdhury was born in Daharpara village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Believe it or not, but Chowdhury, whose first job was as an art teacher in a school in Howrah, also joined as a <a href="http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/jogen_chowdhury.htm">textile designer</a> in the Handloom Board. To see Day Dreaming, click <a href="http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=577DDFB4B1FC57143948D2A8D95E8790">here</a>. You can also see some of his other paintings, <a href="http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=F9FF99841C58AE82A26F901C95445C9A">Couple A</a> and <a href="http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=AAF1D7E68820849EE628081AD0ACFA37">Situation X</a>.

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