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

232 Indian Association, Madras.* Selected Collections Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Collection, Windsor Castle, England. Indian Museum, Calcutta. NGMA, N.Delhi. Oriental and India Office Library & Records, London. Rabindra Bharati Society, Calcutta. Rabindra Bharati University Museum, Calcutta. Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. TAGORE, Gaganendranath (1867 - 1938) Born: Calcutta. Education Self-Taught. Selected Exhibitions 1908 Inaugural Exhb.: ISOA, Calcutta (Also 1910 &1912).* 1909 ISOA Exhb., Simla.* 1911 ISOA’s United Provinces Exhb., Allahabad.* Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, England. (Organised by ISOA for George V’s Coronation).* 1914 22nd Exhb. of Societe des peintres orientalistes francais, Grand Palais, Paris. Travelling to Belgium, Holland and Imperial Institute, England.* 1915-6 ISOA Ex., Calcutta & Young Men’s Indian Association, Madras.* 1924 Travelling Exhb., USA. (Organised by American Federation of Art & ISOA).* 1928 Athenee Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. (Organised by James Cousins). Selected Collections Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Calcutta. Bharat Kala Bhavan, Hindu University, Varanasi. Indian Museum, Calcutta. VBU. NGMA, N.Delhi. Rabindra Bharati Society, Calcutta. Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. TAGORE, Rabindranath (1861 - 1941) Born: Calcutta. Education & Teaching Experience Self-Taught. Founder, VBU. (Inaugurated, 23-12-1921). Selected Solo Exhibitions 1930 First Travelling Ex.- Galerie Pigalle, Paris; City Art Gallery, Birmingham, & India Society, London, UK; Moeller’s Gallery, Berlin, Art Club of Saxony, Dresden & Gallery Caspari, Munich, Germany; Charlottenburg Picture Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Geneva; State Moscow Museum of New Western Art, Moscow; Doll & Richards Gallery & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and 56th Street Galleries, New York. 1931 The Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, USA. 1932 GCAC. 1934 Congress House, Madras. 1938 Calmann Gallery, London. 1939 Bangiya Art Heritage, N.Delhi 1943 Tagore Society, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. 1950 Allahabad University, Allahabad. 1953 National Library, Calcutta. JAG. 1955 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (Also 1957). 1961 Tagore Centenary Exhb., Calcutta. Indian High Commission, Karachi. Swiss National Library, Switzerland. Colombo Art Gallery, Sri Lanka. 1965 NGMA, N.Delhi. 1967 BAAC. 1973 Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, VBU. (Also 1975, 1976, 1977 & 1979). 1986-7 Travelling Exhb. - Barbican Gallery, London; Corner House, Manchester; The Third Eye, Glasgow & Cartwright Hall, Bedford; and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Selected Collections Indian Museum, Calcutta. NGMA, N.Delhi. Rabindra-Sandana (Tagore Museum), Santiniketan. Rabindra Bharati Society, Calcutta. Tagore Museum, from the Late Rani Chanda Collection, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. UKIL, Sarada Charan (1890 - 1940) Born: Dhaka, Bikrampur. Education & Teaching Experience Student of Abanindranath Tagore in the ’Indian Painting’ section GCAC. 1918 Association with Rai Bhadur Lal Sultan Singh in Dehra Dun, along with his son Raghubir Singh, and Delhi journalist Keshabchandra Roy, founded the Modern School. Sultan Singh invited Ukil to N.Delhi to join the Fine Art faculty of Modern School, where he started teaching. 1926 Ukil founded his own studio for teaching and propagating the Bengal School’s ideas and art practises, which became the first art school in the Capital, ’Sarada Ukil School of Art’, Connaught Place. Awards & Exhibitions 1927 Barada Ukil and Sarada Ukil founded ’The Society of Indian Arts and Crafts’ N.Delhi. Exhb. Organised Simla Art Society, B.A.S., Ukil’s paintings of Neo-Bengal School won many prizes. 1931 Paintings exhibited in London and Paris. Selected Public Collections Royal Houses in India. Jaganmohan Palace. Srichitralayam, S.India. Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. NGMA, N.Delhi. VARMA, Raja Ravi (1848 - 1906) Born: Kilimanoor, Princely State of Travancore, Kerala. Education Self-Taught. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1873 Governor’s Gold Medal, (Nair Lady Dorning her Hair): Fine Arts Exhb., Madras. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1873 Madras. (Awarded Governor’s Gold Medal: Nair Lady Doning Her Hair)* 1889 B.A.S. Inaugural Exhb., Bombay. 1893 World’s Columbian Exhb., Chicago. 1899 ’Baroda Puranic Commission’s’ Trivandrum, Baroda & Bombay.* 1993 Exhb. of Paintings, Drawings & Oleographs from the Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Trivandrum; NGMA & Private Collections. National Museum, N.Delhi.* Selected Collections Department of Archaeology & Museums, Maharashtra State. Government Museum, Madras. Laxmi Vilas Palace, Baroda. Maharani of Porbunder, Ootacamund. Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Thiruvanthapuram. The Maharaja Fatehsingh Museum Trust, Baroda. Trustees of the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai. ZHAROTIA, Jai (b.1945) Born: Delhi. Education & Teaching Experience 1967 Diploma in Art. 1971 National Diploma in Fine Art. 1974 Lecturer at College of Art, N.Delhi. Professor and Head of the Department, M.F.A. Painting. Awards/ Fellowships/ Honours 1979 Sahitya Kala Parishad. (Also 1980 & 1985). 1980 All India Graphics, Chandigarh - Lithographs. 1983 AIFACS, - Silk Screen Print. 1984 ’All India Drawing,’ Chandigar 1987 AIFACS, N.Delhi: Ceramics and Drawings. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1970- 82 Graphic Show, TKS. 1973 Jai’ 73, Kunika-CH Art Gallery. 1974 Drawings, Rabindra Bhawan, N.Delhi. 1977 Lecture and Graphic Show at B.H.U., Varanasi. 1978-81 Graphics, Dhoomimal. 1983-7 Watercolours, Art Heritage, N.Delhi. (Also 1991). 1984-9 Watercolours, Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay. 1985 Watercolours, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1986 Ceramics, Akar, Chandigarh. Ceramics & Graphics, Genesis Art Gallery, Calcutta. 1989 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai.