Sailoz Mookherjea was born in West Bengal in the year 1906 He completed his diploma in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta in 1932 He later taught at Delhi Polytechnic, and also served as the Art Director at the Imperial Tobacco Company before moved to Paris in 1937 His workstyle was founded upon the fundaments of simplistic forms, fluid lines with dynamic elements He is considered as one of the foremost modernists of India He gained inspiration from European artists such as Matisse, while at the same time gauged the work ethics of Basohli miniatures and the Bengal School His artistic themes amalgamate nature and rural scenes with bold lines and an empowering color palette His works emphasize colour over form, and renders a high degree of expression and movement into his protagonists Mukherjea's later landscape compositions illustrate a shift towards a complete disregard of form and the signifying function of the line, in favour of arbitrary scribbles and intermingling coloursMukherjea’s works have been exhibited all over the nation and internationally at the UNESCO World Art Heritage Exhibition in Paris in 1946 His works are part of several important collections of Indian art, including those of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, MumbaiIn the year 1979 the Archaeological Survey of India declared him as one of the Nine Masters of Indian art Post released a stamp with his painting on itSailoz Mookherjea passed away in 1960