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

173 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES NIKHIL BISWAS b . 22 April 1930, Calcutta, West Bengal d . 10 November 1966, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1949 Enrolled at Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta (Unfinished Diploma in Fine Arts) Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities Art Lecturer, Mitra Institution, Calcutta 1951 Founder Member & Secretary, Chitrangshu Group, Calcutta 1960 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1963 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters Solo Exhibitions 1954 Calcutta 1959 Calcutta 1960 Calcutta 1961 Calcutta 1962 Calcutta 1965 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (21–27 January) Drawings & Rolling Pictures from India , Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic, Dresden, Halle, Madgeburg Drawings , German Democratic Republic, Berlinz, Munich 1967 Selection of Works , Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (3–15 September) Retrospective , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1975 A Selection of Works , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (28 February–6 March) 1978 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Retrospective , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (December) 1988 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (12–28 February) 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1992 Nikhil Biswas Retrospective , Om, the Gallery of Art, New Delhi (3–18 March) 1993 Selected Works , Organised by Alliance Francaise de Delhi, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi, (15 January–6 February) 1994-5 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (January 1995) 2001 The Untamed, Drawings & Watercolours , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (23 January–4 February) Awards & Honours 1954 Mother at Work , Mr. B.M. Birla’s Gold Medal for best work in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1956 Gold Medal, Most important Modern Indian Painter, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Halle Museum [Germany] National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Ebrahim Alkazi & Art Heritage, New Delhi H.K. Kejriwal Family Collection, Bangalore Prashant Tulysan, Kolkata Neville Tuli & Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive Kito & Jane de Boer, Dubai [U.A.E.] Prakash and Soumitra Kejriwal, Kolkata Mukund & Nirja Lath Family Collection, Jaipur Select Bibliography Books Mazumdar, Nirode. Drawings by Fourteen Contemporary Artists of Bengal . Calcutta: Priti Mukherjee & Bhawani Mullick 1970. (np) Bhattacharya, Asok K. Calcutta Paintings . Calcutta: Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal 1994. (pp.117, 121 & 129) Chaitanya, Krishna. A History of Indian Painting – The Modern Period . New Delhi: Abhinav Publications 1994. (p.311) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams NY 1998.] (p.217) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi 1997. [Essay by Ella Datta] (p.41) CIMA. Art of Bengal – Past and Present . Calcutta 2000. [Essay by Ella Datta] (pp.75, 165 & 228) Manasij Majumder. ‘The Bustle of Local Art’ in The Telegraph 28 June 1989, Calcutta. Samir Datta. ‘Woman as Focus of Feeling’ in The Statesman 20 September 1989, Calcutta. Manasij Majumdar. ‘A Goddess Soft and Withdrawn’ in Business Standard 6 May 1990, Calcutta. Bela Bose. ‘The Loved Ones’ in Business Standard 14 September 1991, Calcutta. Manjira Sarkar. ‘Of Heritage and High Society’ in The Economic Times 12 January 1992, Calcutta. Sohini Sen. ‘Is it Infradig to Go Back to Your Past?’ in The Telegraph 16 September 1994, Calcutta. Rita Datta. ‘Triumph of Portraiture’ in The Telegraph 4 February 2000, Kolkata. Abhijit Dasgupta. ‘The Wheel of Life’ in The Times Of India 15 July 2001, Mumbai. ‘Youthful Srokes’ in The Telegraph 30 September 2002, Kolkata. Samir Dasgupta. ‘Talent Often Takes Time to Bloom’ in The Telegraph 4 October 2002, Kolkata. Soumitra Das.’The Mature Charms of Senior Practitioners’ in The Telegraph 4 December 2002, Kolkata. Kausik Datta.’The Difference Lies in the Eyes’ in Business Standard 14-15 December 2002, Mumbai.