Satish Gujral (Indian, born 1929)
Satish Gujral was born in Jhelum, a former city in West Punjab, now Pakistan. From the ages of fourteen to nineteen, he attended the Mayo School of Art, which was the first colonial art school in Punjab since its annexation to British India in 1849. Gujral continued his education between 1944 to 1947 at the venerable Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay.
In his late twenties, Gujral traveled on scholarship to Mexico City to study at the Palacio de Bellas Artes with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera.(1) It was here that he was introduced to the mural format as a vehicle for social protest of the working class.
(1) http://www.legacy-project.org/index.php?page=art_detail&artID=630
Information courtesy of Skinner, Inc. March 2009.