Rabindranath Tagore sits wrapped in blankets outdoors, gazing at the camera
Poet, novelist and painter Rabindranath Tagore. Photograph: Christie's Images Ltd 2026
Poet, novelist and painter Rabindranath Tagore. Photograph: Christie's Images Ltd 2026
The 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 artistic process and personal relationships in his final 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.