[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?

[Kalyan Sarkar]

You are welcome, Ashwin!

Regards,
Kalyan Sarkar

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Ashwin Baindur
<ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you Kalyan, that was awesome! Less than an hour to solve the puzzle,
> Hooray for crowd-sourcing. You deserve a barnstar!
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes. It is Abanindranath Tagore.
>>
>> Please visit http://www.clicktobuyboi.in/catalog/product/view/id/9452/,
>> which shows a book on him titled 'Agranthita Abanindranath' (Unpublished
>> Abanindranath). The image in the front cover of the book shows the side
>> view of a slightly younger Abanindranath. But one can easily make out that
>> the image is of the same person as that of the image in the LIFE repository.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Kalyan Sarkar
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Ashwin Baindur <
>> ashwin.baindur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The LIFE repository of public domain images has this image on its Google
>>> site
>>>
>>> http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7cbc71f276cdecd4
>>>
>>> The caption is completely botched up by the Life data input guy
>>> (presumably) - it cant be Rabindranath Tagore who sported a beard most of
>>> his life. I suspect it is RT's famous painter nephew  Abanindranath Tagore
>>> (teacher of famous Shantiniketan painter, Nandalal Bose)-
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abanindranath_Tagore
>>>
>>> Even this blog page says so :
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/04/abanindranath-tagore-famous-artist-of.html
>>>
>>> What I'm looking from Bengali Wikipedians is to please help me confirm
>>> this with some kind of proof. This image is p-d India and uploadable to
>>> Commons since Abanindranath died in 1951 at age 80 and this image would be
>>> around when he was around 60.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
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