SM Sultan - এস এম সুলতান

Native name : এস এম সুলতান
Born Sheikh Mohammed Sultan
10 August 1923
Machimdia village, Narail District, Bengal Presidency, British India

Died : 10 October 1994 (aged 71)
Jessore, Bangladesh
Resting place Narail, Bangladesh

Nationality : British Indian (1923–1947)
Pakistani (1947–1971)
Bangladeshi (1971–1994)

Education : Government School of Art
Known for : Painting, drawing

Notable work :
First Plantation (1975)
Char Dakhal (1976)
Harvesting (1986)
Fishing-3 (1991)

Awards :
Ekushey Padak
1982
Bangladesh Charu Shilpi Sangsad Award
1986
Independence Day Award
1993

Sultan established the Kurigram Fine Arts Institute at Narail in 1969 and another art school, now named Charupeeth, in Jessore in 1973.

In 1989, Tareque Masud directed a 54-minute documentary film on Sultan's life, called Adam Surat (The Inner Strength). Masud started filming it in 1982 with the help of the painter, and traveled with him all around Bangladesh. According to Masud, Sultan agreed to cooperate only on the condition that "... rather than being the film's subject, he would act as a catalyst to reveal the film's true protagonist, the Bengali peasant."

In 2005, photographer Nasir Ali Mamun published a book Guru with 68 photographs of Sultan. These were selected from thousands of photographs taken by Mamun in the period from 1978, when he first met with Sultan, until his death.

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