Jogen Chowdhury is among the generation of living artists who had witnessed the Partition first hand. For him, the power and haunting legacy of black has been Partition’s lasting impact on his art. Throughout his five years at the Government College of Art Calcutta (1955-60), he would hone his skills by sketching his siblings at home in a refugee colony by the faint light of a kerosene lamp in the evenings, as well as the refugees at Sealdah Station who came from East Pakistan, with whose plight he empathized. Two such works from this phase have been included in this gallery – both sketches of refugee girls.