Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy

At a time when museums thought that the works of Progressive Artists should be hung in toilets, mercurial entrepreneur Kekoo Gandhy believed in modern Indian art. He and his wife Khorshed went on to set up Gallery Chemould. Jerry Pinto’s Citizen Gallery is a biography of the Gandhys and of Chemould, now a byword in the art world. Before the first galleries came along, the Bombay Art Society and the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art were the two most important art institutions in Bombay. In the 1940s, three Jewish…