Avinash Chandra left India for Britain in 1956, just two years after winning First Prize at the First National Art Exhibition of Art in New Delhi. He soon became one of the first Indian artists to achieve widespread international recognition. In 1962 he was the focus of a BBC documentary by art historian W.G. Archer and the recipient of the gold medal Prix Européen. Three years later Chandra became the first Indian artist to be exhibited at Tate Britain, London, before being awarded a John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund Fellowship, which enabled him to live and work in New York.
