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

218 Selected Collections Deutsche Bank (India) Collection, Bombay. LKA, N.Delhi. NGMA, N.Delhi. Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji, Japan. Ben & Abbey Grey Foundation, USA. BENDRE, Narayan Shridhar (1910 - 92) Born: Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Education & Teaching Experience 1929-33 B.A., Holkar College (Agra University). 1929-34 Diploma (Painting), State School of Art, Indore. (Student of Y.D. Deolalikar). 1947-8 Study Tour of USA, sponsored by Federation of American Artists (Philadelphia). 1948 Graphic art at the Art Students’ League, New York. (Student of Armen Landeck). 1950-9 Reader, Fine Arts Faculty, MSU. 1959-66 Dean of Fine Arts Faculty, MSU. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1941 Gold Medal, B.A.S. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945 Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. 1948 Windmere Gallery, USA. (Travelling Exhb.). 1955 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Thorn).* 1974 Retrospective, JAG. 1992 Individuals Cultural Centre, Jammu. Selected Collections H.K. Kejriwal Collection & Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. LKA, N.Delhi. NGMA, N.Delhi. TIFR. Ghia Family Collection, Mumbai. BHASKARAN, R.B. (b.1942) Born: Madras. Education & Teaching Experience 1962-6 Advanced Painting, GCAM. 1964 Fresco Techniques at Bhanasthali Vidyapeeth College, Rajasthan. 1968 IAPA, UNESCO Scholarship for Intaglio Printmaking, Lithography & Ceramics at Ein Hod, Israel. 1970 Intaglio Printmaking Technique Workshop, Smithsonian Institute, USA. 1976-7 Post-Graduate Studies in Printmaking, Portsmouth Polytechnic, England. 1982 Intaglio Printmaking Technique Workshop, Smithsonian Institute, USA, under Prof. Paul Lingren. Principal of the College of Arts & Crafts, Kumbakonam. Principal, GCAM. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1968 Scholarship from IAPA, UNESCO. 1979-81 Fellowship of Govt. of India. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1966 Madras. (Also in 1968, 1972 & 1978). 1968 Exhb. in Bombay, Tel Aviv, Israel and Jerusalem. 1971 Exhb. at Suva, Fiji Islands. 1983 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Marriage Photo II).* 1995 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay. 1996 JAG. Selected Collections Artists Centre, Jerusalem. Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Srinagar. Kansas State University, USA. Library of Congress, Washington, USA. Lim Kibutz Gallery, Israel. NGMA, N.Delhi. San Diego State University, California, USA. BHATTA, Raghupathi (b.1957) Born: Karnataka. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1988 Mysore Dasara Award. 1989 Vishvakarma Award. 1991 Jaycee State Award. 1992 Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Demonstration of Ganjifa painting technique. 1995 National Master Craftsman Award, (Conferred by the President of India). Selected Collections Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Commissioned to create a series of 60 Ganjifa paintings on the Ramayana theme for the Museum’s Indian Galleries. BHATTACHARJEE, Bikash (b.1940) Born: Calcutta, West Bengal. Education & Teaching Experience 1958-63 Diploma in Painting, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1968-72 Lecturer (Fine Arts Dept.), Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1973-82 Lecturer, GCAC. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1971 National Exhb., RB.LKA (LKNA: Man on Swing).* 1987 Bangla Ratna. 1988 Padma Shree. 1989 Shiromani Puraskar. 1990 Nivedita Puraskar, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashram. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1965 Artistry House, Calcutta. Tata Iron and Steel Company, Jamshedpur. 1971 Doll Series, BAAC & Kunika-CH. National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: The Totem).* 1972 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Man on the Swing).* 1974 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (Also 1976 & 1982). 1977 Dhoomimal. (Also 1979). 1984 Retrospective, JAG. 1986 She, Chitrakoot & Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. 1987 ’Environs’, BAAC & JAG. Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. (Also 1992). 1989 Sabari, Gallerie 88, Calcutta. Durga, BAAC. (Also 1997). 1990 ’The Boy’, Gallerie 88, Calcutta. (Also 1993). 1991 Homage, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta. 1994 ’Recent Works’, JAG. (Organised by CIMA). (Also 2000). Selected Collections Chandigarh University Museum, Punjab. NGMA, N.Delhi. Punjab University Museum, Chandigarh. Rashtrapati Bhavan, N.Delhi. Chester & Davida Herwitz Collection, Boston, USA. Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji, Japan. BHATTACHARYA, Durgashankar (1890-1955) Born: Mymensingh, (present-day) Bangladesh. Education Educated at Bengal Technical Institute, Chemistry and Geology. Association with Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose, training at The ISOA, Calcutta. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1930 Mysore Prize. 1932 Gold Medal at Swadeshi Exhb., Gorakhpur. BISWAS, Nikhil (1930 - 66) Born: Calcutta. Education 1949-54 Diploma (Fine Arts), GCAC, Calcutta. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1953 Calcutta. (Also 1959-1962 & 1965) 1966-7 ’Drawings & Rolling Pictures from India’, Dresden, Germany. 1967 Retrospective, JAG. 1977 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. 1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta. (Also 1989, 1994 & 1995). 1990 Art Heritage, N.Delhi. Selected Collections Ebrahim Alkazi, N.Delhi. Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. NGMA, N.Delhi. BOMANJI, Pestonji (1851 - 1938) Born: Bombay, Maharashtra. Education & Teaching Experience 1870 Student of Portraiture, J.J.School. 1890-4 Teacher & the first Indian Vice- Principal, J.J.School. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1879 Prize Winner, first Indian to win at the Calcutta Annual Exhb. 1883-4 Prize winner at the International Exhb., Calcutta (Title: Parsi Lady Sewing). Inaugural B.A.S. Exhb., his Parsi Tiger Slayer was the prize winner for ’the best exhibit by a native artist’.