Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

217 ABEDIN, Shilpacharya Zainul (1914 - 76) Born: Mymensingh, (present-day) Bangladesh. Education & Teaching Experience 1938 Fine Arts, GCAC. 1948-67 Principal, College of Arts and Crafts, Dhaka. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1938 Governor’s Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta: All India Art Exhb. 1943 Earned recognition through his sketches of the Great Bengal Famine. 1948 Pioneered the Art Movement in Bangladesh by establishing the first Art College, Dhaka. 1956-7 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. 1972 Appointed Honorary President of Bangla Academy. Awarded Honorary D. Litt. by the University of Delhi. 1973 Founded the Folk Art Museum Sonargaon, Dhaka. Founded the Zainul Abedin Sangrahasala (Art Gallery), Mymensingh. 1982 Gallery dedicated to Zainul Abedin at the Bangladesh National Museum. AMBADAS (b.1922) Born: Akola, Maharashtra. Education 1947-52 Diploma (Painting), J.J.School. 1990-1 Artist in Residence, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1968 Invited by German Govt. as Guest Artist. 1971 Invited by USA Govt.& Iranian Govt. as Guest Artist. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1962 Shridharani (FS). 1966 National Exhb. RB.LKA. (LKNA: Hot Wind Blows Inside Me).* 1968-9 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (Also 1976, 1981 & 1998). 1973-5 Surya Gallerie, Freinsheim, W.Germany. 1974 Henning Larsens Gallery, Copenhagen. 1977-9 Gallery Alana, Oslo. 1991 Art Heritage, N.Delhi. 1992 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1993 Gallery L.M.N., Oslo. 1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, N.Delhi. Selected Collections NGMA, N.Delhi. Chandigarh University Museum, Chandigarh. TIFR. Masanori Fukuoka, Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji, Japan. Ben & Abbey Grey Foundation, USA. H.I.M. Shahabanu of Iran. State Gallery, Norway. ARA, K.H. (1913 - 85) Born: Bolarum, near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Education Self - taught. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1944 Awarded Governor’s Prize. 1952 Gold Medal, B.A.S. Selected Exhibitions 1942 Bombay. (Also 1950, 1954, 1960 &1963). 1948-56 Group Exhb. with the Progressive Artists Group (PAG) & the Bombay Group. Selected Collections Late Sir Cowasji Jehangir Family Collection. LKA, N.Delhi. NGMA, N.Delhi. TIFR. Late Rudi von Leyden Family Collection. ARYA, Badrinath (b.1936) Born: Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, (present day) Pakistan. Education & Teaching Experience 1952-6 Diploma in Fine Arts, GCAL. 1956-7 Post-graduate Diploma in Painting and Sculpture, GCAL. (Student of L.M. Sen & Bireshwar Sen). 1990s Head, Dept. of Fine Arts, GCAL. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1953 Kashmir (FS). 1975 Lucknow. 1980 New Delhi. Selected Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. Allahabad Museum, Allahabad. Governor’s House, N.Delhi. Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad. National Academy of Administration, Mussorie. NGMA, N.Delhi. ASH, Gobardhan (1907 - 96) Born: Begampur, Hoogly district, West Bengal. Education & Teaching Experience 1926-30 Fine Arts, GCAC. 1932 Student of D.P. Roy Chowdhury, GCAM. 1953-5 Professor, Indian Art College, Calcutta. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1935 First Prize, Madras Fine Arts Society. Silver Medal, Delhi Fine Art Society. 1937 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. 1945 Silver Medal, Progressive Writers and Artists Association, Calcutta. 1985 Abanindra Award, Govt. of West Bengal. BAIJ, Ramkinkar (1910 - 80) Born: Jugipada, Bankura, West Bengal. Education & Teaching Experience 1925-9 Diploma (Fine Arts), VBU. Head of Sculpture Dept., VBU. Selected Solo Exhbitions 1942-7 New Delhi (FS). 1944 Exhb. with B.B. Mukherjee, N.Delhi. 1960-1 VBU. ’Paintings, Sketches & Sulptures’, Calcutta Arts Council, Calcutta. 1972 BAAC. 1990 Retrospective, NGMA. Selected Collections Late Rani Chanda Collection & Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. H.K. Kejriwal Collection & Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. LKA, N.Delhi. NGMA, N.Delhi (260+ works). Reserve Bank of India, N.Delhi. BANERJEE, Amitabha (b.1928) Born: Bangladesh. Education GCAC. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1971 All India Awards by Group8, N.Delhi. 1975 AIFACS Award. 1981 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA).* 1993 Retrospective, BAAC. Selected Collections LKA, N.Delhi. BAAC. Chandigarh Museum. Library of Congress, USA. New York Public Library. Bradford Museum, England. BARWE, Prabhakar (1936 - 95) Born: Nagaon, Maharashtra. Education 1954-9 Diploma (Fine Arts), J.J.School. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1969 ’Yomiuri Shimbun’ Award, Tokyo, Japan. 1976 National Exhb. RB.LKA. (LKNA).* 1988 Residency Fellowship Grant, ’Yaddo’, Artists’ Colony, New York State. Fellowship for extensive travel in USA. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1961 JAG. 1963 Book Bay Gallery, Wisconsin, USA. 1967 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. (Also 1968). 1971 Gallery Chanakya, N.Delhi. (Also 1978). 1973 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (Also 1983, 1987 & 1993). 1976 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Blue Cloud).* 2000 BAAC, Mumbai. (Curated by Ranjit Hoskote).