The artist Sakti Burman has often been described, and rightly so, as a bridge between the East and the West. Born in 1935 and educated in Kolkata, Burman left for Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts. Since then, he has been living and practising in France, while keeping his ties to India. His paintings, which use the technique of marbling, resemble frescoes, such as those in Pompeii and Ajanta, and are indicative of the dual worlds he occupies.