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Bengaluru: Renowned figurative artist Yusuf Arakkal, who left a distinct impression of his own with his works, died at his residence here due to illness, his family said.
“My father has passed away,” the 70-year-old Bengaluru-based artist’s son Sibu Arakkal told here.
Besides Sibu, Arakkal is survived by wife Sara Arakkal.
Born in 1945 in Kerala’s Chavakkad, Arakkal obtained a diploma in painting from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat here.
His mother hailed from the only Muslim royal family which once ruled Kerala and his father belonged to Keyees, the well-known business family based at Kozhikode and Thalassery.
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