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

223 HASSAN, Qamarul (1921 - 88) Born: Bardhaman, W.Bengal. Education 1947 Fine Arts: GCAC. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1965 President’s Gold Medal. 1979 Independence Day Award: Govt. of Bangladesh. 1982 Comilla Foundation Gold Medal. Mahbubullah Trust Gold Medal. 1984 Bangladesh Charu Shilpi Sangsad Honour. Qamarul Hassan Gallery, at the Bangladesh National Museum. Selected Exhibitions 1954 Bangla Academy, Dhaka. 1955 Art Ensemble Gallery, Dhaka. 1957 Rangoon, Burma. 1969 Society of Contemporary Art Gallery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 1975 Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. HORE, Somnath (b.1920) Born: Chittagong (present-day) Bangladesh. Education & Teaching Experience 1945 GCAC & Self-Taught. 1954-8 Lecturer, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1958-67 Senior Lecturer & Head of Graphic Arts Faculty, Delhi Polytechnic of Art. 1966 Visiting Professor in Graphic Arts Faculty, MSU. 1968-9 Visiting Professor in KaLa BhavanVBU. 1969-84 Professor, Graphic Arts Dept., Kala Bhavan, VBU. 1984 Prof. Emeritus, Santiniketan. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1960 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Companions).* 1962 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Birth of a White Rose).* 1963 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA: Dream).* 1977 L.N. Gupta Memorial Award. 1984 Gagan - Abani Award. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1956 Calcutta (FS). (Also 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1968 & 1991). 1960 N.Delhi (Also 1963, 1965 & 1967). 1973 Kunika-CH. 1998 ’Anguish Absorbed’, The Window, Bombay. Selected Collections Ebrahim Alkazi & Art Heritage, N.Delhi. Bahai Museum, N.Delhi. LKA, N.Delhi. Ministry of Education, N.Delhi. NGMA, N.Delhi. Kito & Jane de Boer Family Collection. KANODIA, Naina (b.1950) Born: Mumbai. Education Economics (Hons) Lady Shri Ram College, N.Delhi. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1987 LKA, N.Delhi. 1988 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay. Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai. (Also 1993 & 1995). 1990 Bajaj Art Gallery. 1991 JAG. (Also 1995 & 1999). 1996 ShridharaniTKS. 1997 ARKS Gallery, London. KAPOOR, Wasim (b.1951) Born: Lucknow. Education 1971 Diploma (Fine Arts), Indian College of Arts & Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1980-1 All India Award, Academy of Fine Arts. 1984 All India Award, BAAC. 1985 Shiromani Puraskar Award, Asian Paints. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1969 Calcutta (Also 1970, 1974 & 1984). Selected Collections BAAC. Harsh Goenka & RPG Group. NGMA. HEART. KAR, Amina Ahmed (1930 - 94) Born: Calcutta. Education GCAC. Studied Oil Painting at Academy Julien. Studied Graphic Art at Hayter’s Studio. Research (Archaeology and Art traditions of India), Sorbonne University, Paris. Worked at figural drawing, at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Worked in the Paris Studio of D’Stiji, creator of Tableaux Objects - M.Cesar Domela. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1940 French Govt. Scholarship, Paris. Selected Exhibitions LKA, N.Delhi. The Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. Galleri Collette, Paris. CIMA. NGMA, N.Delhi. KAR, Chintamoni (b.1915) Born: Kharagpur, W. Bengal. Education & Teaching Experience 1930-1 Studied Painting under Shri, Kshitindranath Majumdar & Sculpture under Shri Giridhari Maharana (hereditary carver from Orissa). 1935-7 Served as a School Teacher in Bengal. 1938 Studied Sculpture under Prof. R. Wlerick at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris & stone carving at the Atelier of M. Victor Giovanelli. 1940-2 Lecturer in Art and Craft, Teachers’ Training Department, University of Calcutta. 1943-5 Lecturer in Sculpture & Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic. 1956 Appointed as Principal, GCAC. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1960-1 Worked on Restoration of Paintings under the Directorate General des Musees de France via a French Government Scholarship. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1936 Painting, Calcutta. 1938 Painting, New Delhi. Grand Salon, Paris. 1944 Painting and Sculpture, London (Also1945). 1946 Painting, Paris. 1948-58 Royal Academy, London. 1950 Sculpture, Painting and Ceramics at Gallerie des Garets, France. 1951 Sculpture, London. 1954 Sculpture and Painting, New Delhi (Also 1964). Selected Collections Central Museum, Lahore. Govt. Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh. Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta. Chintamoni Kar Museum, W. Bengal Govt. Lok Sabha, New Delhi. Lidice Museum, Czechoslavakia. Ministry of Fine Arts, Romania. Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg. KARMAKAR, Prokash (b.1933) Born: Calcutta. Education 1953 GCAC. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1965 National Exhb., RB.LKA. (LKNA Also 1968). 1968 Awarded a French Govt. Scholarship. 1969-70 Award to visit France, to study Museum’s Art of France against Cultural Exchange. Programme, Govt. of India and Govt. of France. 1970 Rabindra Bharati University, (Painting), Calcutta. 1976 BAAC. Mahakhosla Kala Parishad, Madhya Pradesh. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1949 Drawings, Gallery 88, Calcutta. 1953 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1955-83 Calcutta. 1959 Pavement Show, Calcutta. 1959-70 LKA, N.Delhi. Banga Sanskriti Sanmelan, Mumbai and Calcutta. 1962-4 AIFACS. (Also 1976). 1969-71 New Delhi.