His first solo exhibition was at Kolkata in 1965. His paintings were exhibited outside India; he had shows in 1969 at Paris; between 1970 and 72 in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary; in London in 1982; and in New York in 1985. He achieved commercial success early in life with his Doll Series in the 1960s, which was later followed by the Durga Series. In the 1980s, Bhttacharjee painted illustrations for a novel on the life of
Ram Kinker Baij, a great artist of the past. The novel, written by Bengali novelist
Samaresh Basu, was never completed because of the death of the author, but Bhttacharjee's works for the book were some of his best. Bhttacharjee often painted in a realistic style. He painted portraits of
Tagore,
Satyajit Ray, and
Samaresh Basu. His portrait of
Indira Gandhi, with a blurred and white face, was painted after her murder. He produced a series of works about the
Naxal movement and a group of paintings of prostitutes. Bikash had inspired a host of painters in India including Sanjay Bhattacharya, a realistic painter from Bengal. ==Style==