Delhi based figurative painter Arup Das was a noted muralist.His human figuration, expressively stylised, had something monumental about it even when painted in small format. Although from the illusionist spatial recession, the pictorial space in his paintings interpreted the figures in terms of fine overlaps or colours in a wide range of tones. Born in West Bengal in 1927, Arup Das graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta. Since the late ’50s he has been living and working in New Delhi. During 1960-68, he was a member of the council of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, and went to study in the UK on a British Council fellowship in 1972.He had 22 solo shows in India and abroad till the year 1994, he participated in 24 important group shows in lndia and abroad . A recipient of the National Award of 1957 from the Lalit Kala Akademi, he won prizes at All India Art Exhibitions of the AIFACS in 1954 and the President\'s Silver Plaque in 1957. His works are in the collection in india and abroad. Arup Das passed away in 2004.