Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

166 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III KRISHNA HAWLAJI ARA b . 16 April 1914, Bolarum, near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh d . 30 June1985, Bombay, Maharashtra Education No formal training in painting and mostly self-taught. 1940-1 Encouraged to take up painting as a profession by Head of Art Department, Times of India, Walter Langhammer & art critic, Rudi von Leyden. Certificate in Foundation Course, Ketkar Institute of Art, Girgaum, Bombay Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1930 Participated in the Salt Satyagraha and served a spell in jail as a result 1947 Founder Member, Progressive Artists’ Group, Bombay 1951-2 Member, Managing Committee, Bombay Art Society Member, Selection & Judging Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1952 Founder Secretary, Artists’ Centre Associated with Bombay Art Society and with the Art Society of India. Solo Exhibitions 1942 Chetna Restaurant, Organized by Kekoo Gandhy, Bombay, Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay 1950 Still Life , Bombay 1954 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1960 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1963 Black Nude Series , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1964 Jashn-e-Ara , Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay 1973 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (April) 1978 Artists’ Centre, Bombay (13–20 May) Awards & Honours 1939 Bombay Art Society 1944 The Great Mahratta Battle , Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society’s Annual Exhibition 1951-2 Two Jugs , Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society 1961 Sponsored by Lalit Kala Akademi, visited France as guest of French Government and visited Bulgaria as an exchange artist on invitation of the Bulgarian Artists Association Select Collections Baroda Museum, Vadodara Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum (previously known as the Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Royal Indian Society, London [U.K.] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research [TIFR], Mumbai The High Court Bar Room, Mumbai UNESCO Museum of Art, Paris [France] Yale University [U.S.A.] Zenab & Ruxana Pathan, Mumbai Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting. Madras: Rachana 1953. (p.59) Appasamy, Jaya (Ed.). Ara. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1965. [Text: R. von Leyden] Kapur, Geeta. Contemporary Indian Artists . New Delhi: Vikas Publishers 1978. (pp.8, 10 & 53) Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. (pp.198 & 206) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams NY 1998.] (pp.110, 202–5, 214, 239 & 390) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. [Essay by Y. Dalmia] (pp.12 &14–5) Khanna, Balraj & Aziz Kurtha. Art Of Modern India . London: Thames and Hudson 1998. (pp.20 & 130) Mehta, Anupa (Ed.). A Collector’s Eye: The Jehangir Nicholson Collection – Selected Works . Mumbai 1998. (pp.15–7 & 92) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives . New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (pp.42, 46, 55, 56, 62, 71, 97, 129–43, 186, 233–4, 248–9, 251, 261–2, 268, 275–6, 278–9, 281 & 291) Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art In India: A Perspective . New Delhi: National Book Trust 2001. (pp.65, 67–8, 70 & 75) Dalmia, Yashodhara (Ed.). Contemporary Indian Art: Other Realities . Mumbai: Marg Publications 2002. (pp.3 & 75) Karin Zitzewitz. The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art . Mumbai: Chemould Publications and Arts 2003. (pp.6, 23-4, 39 & 59) Journals & Essays Hartwell, Wayne M. ‘Some Contemporary Artists’ in Marg Vol.4 No.3 1950 . Bombay. (pp.34–7) Leyden, Rudi von. ‘Studies in Development of K.H. Ara’ in Marg Vol.6 No.2 1953 . Bombay. (pp.52–5) Nigam, R.C. ‘K.H. Ara’ in Art Journal Vol.2 No.3 1973 . New Delhi. (pp.5–6) Jagmohan. ‘The Bombay Art Scene in the Late Forties’ in LKC 28 September 1979. New Delhi (pp.22–8) Jagmohan. ‘The Bombay Art Scene in the Late Forties’ in Art Journal Vol.9 No.2–3 1980 . New Delhi. (pp.23–4) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Bombay Art Society. Story of a Hundred Years The Bombay Art Society 1888–1988: The Retrospective Exhibition of Old Masters . Bombay 1989. [Compiler: Baburao Sadwelkar.] (p.67) Sotheby’s. Indian, European Oriental Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 1992. (L152, L153 & L190) Sotheby’s. Modern & Contemporary Indian Paintings . London 1996. (L59) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II. Bombay 1997. (L67 & L68) Sotheby’s. The Indian Sale . London 1997. (L336) Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L37, L39, L40, L43 & L44) Sotheby’s. Modern & Indian Contemporary Paintings. New York 1997. (L100, L101, L102 & L103) Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art. London 1998. (L40 & L44) Sotheby’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art . New York 1998. (L368 & L369) HEART/Tuli. Intuitive-Logic: The Next Step . New Delhi 1999. (L186, L187, L188, L189 & L190) Sotheby’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art . New York 1999. (L212) Sotheby’s. Indian Miniatures The Travel Sale – India and the Far East Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings . London 2000. (L213) Nehru Centre . Millennium Show: A Century