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DAG, a Mumbai-based art house recently acquired the 75-year-old house of one of India's best-known modernists Jamini Roy in Kolkata to open the country's first private single artist private museum that will also be a cultural resource centre on .
Born in 1887 in Bengal's Bankura district, Roy, one of India's earliest modernists, was awarded the Viceroy's gold medal in 1935, the Padma Bhushan in 1955, and elected a fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1956.