He was well known for his ice cream colours, however there was always something very serene and peaceful about his figures and that’s how on Monday morning, 67-year-old Manjit Bawa left everyone silently after a cardiac arrest as he lay in a coma that had struck him three years ago.
He was born in the year 1941 in the Dhuri village of Punjab. Bawa rose to celebrity status with his unique style in figurative art, using clean lines, strong colours and flat tones, the reason why his work stood out from that of his contemporaries who concentrated on using subdued colours.
