Man, Artist, Wound: Somnath Hore as I Knew Him He never thought of his work as a finished 'product' with commercial 'value'. Nor did he have any sense of his own greatness. Somnath Hore. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Somnath Hore (1921-2006), one of the great multi-faceted artists of the 20th century, was remarkable for the consistency and intensity with which he explored human suffering via the techniques of sketching, printmaking and sculpture. Today is his 100th birth anniversary. Though I was not formally a student of Somnath Hore, from my early student years in Kala Bhavan I was given the precious gift of his lifelong affection. Back in the 1970s, I worked in a studio which was right below his own studio space, and our regular chats under the Bakul tree nearby revealed to me the profoundly emotional and extraordinarily empathetic man behind the now-legendary artist.