Noted painter Yusuf Arakkal died in Bengaluru Tuesday. He was 71. His funeral will be held later. He was born in 1945 at Chavakkad near Guruvayur in Kerala. His mother belonged to the royal family of Arakkal, the only Muslim royal family to have ruled Kerala and his father to Keyees, the well-known business family based at Kozhikode and Thalassery. Both his parents died when he was young.
He took a diploma in painting from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat (KCP), Bengaluru and later specialized in graphic print making from National Academy community studios, Garhi, Delhi.
Yusuf recently received the prestigious Lorenzo De Medici Gold Medal, at Florence Internazionale Biennale, in Florence, Italy for his work Bacon’s Man with the Child and Priest. The award is instituted in memory of the great Florentine statesman Lorenzo de Medici. Yusuf had produced a large collection of miscellaneous works consisting of drawings, paintings, sculptures, murals, paper works, prints, and writing.
He had won several other awards including Karnataka Lalithkala Academy award in 1979 and 1981, a national award in 1983, a special award at the third Asian Art Biennale Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1986 and the Karnataka Lalithkala Academy honor in 1989. Kerala honoured him by giving him the Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram. He had worked in Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd.
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