DHAKA: Bengal Shilpalaya will arrange a three-week exhibition titled ‘Unseen Splendour’ with the artworks by Bangladesh’s one of the major artists SM Sultan at its gallery in city’s Dhanmondi area.

A total of eighty six artworks by Sultan from professor Abul Kasem Joardar’s personal collection will be on display.

Joardar, a former teacher of Jessore’s Michel Madhusudan Dutt College, had a two-decade long friendship with the legendary artist Sultan.

Noted artist Qayyum Chowdhury will inaugurate the show at 6:00pm on September 21.

Cultural activist Asaduzzaman Noor MP, daily Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rhaman, art collector Rokeya Quader, Summit group chairman Muhammad Aziz Khan and art critic Mainuddin Khaled will be present as special guests.

The artworks of the exhibition will put on sale. According to the organisers, a part of the proceeds will go to charity.

The exhibition will remain open from 12:00pm to 8:00pm till October 11.

Venue
House no 42
Road no 16 (new), 27 (old)
Dhanmondi, Dhaka

BDST: 1421 HRS, SEPT 19, 2013
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