Jehangir sabavala artist biography

Indian artist (1922-2011)

Jehangir Sabavala (23 August 1922 – 2 September 2011) was an Indian painter.^[1][2][3][4]

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.^{[7][citation needed]}

Career

From 1951, he held 31 major solo exhibitions across the subcontinent, and in Europe.

In addition, he participated in more than 150 group exhibitions all over the world. His