The private creative world of Rabindranath Tagore, the man Yeats called ‘greater than any of us’
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A previously unseen family archive offers a glimpse into the Indian Nobel prize winner’s artistic process and personal relationships in his final years
Poet, novelist and painter Rabindranath Tagore. Photograph: Christie's Images Ltd 2026Poet, novelist and painter Rabindranath Tagore. Photograph: Christie's Images Ltd 2026The private creative world of Rabindranath Tagore, the man Yeats called ‘greater than any of us’
A previously unseen family archive offers a glimpse into the Indian Nobel prize winner’s artisticprocess and personal relationships in hisfinal years
It’s easy to run out of words to describe Rabindranath Tagore. The first non-European to win the Nobel prize in literature, Tagore was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, philosopher, songwriter, painter, humanist and educator.
