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

178 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III CHITTAPROSAD b . 21 June 1915, Naihati, North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal d . 13 November 1978, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Had no formal training in art. The village sculptors and the puppet players inspired him to become an artist. 1932-6 Chittagong Government College, Chittagong (present-day Bangladesh). Teaching Experience & Infrastructure-building Activities 1934-9 Participated in the National Movement by making posters, drawings and cartoons 1940-48 Member, Communist Party of India Published Hungry Bengal , a pamphlet documenting his experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, all copies of which were burned by the British Raj before they could leave the press. A few were salvaged. His drawings of the Bengal Famine were published in Communist party journals People’s War and Janayudha 1946 Worked for the Left Press, Bombay. 1949 Responded to the call of the World Peace Movement by contributing his art to the cause of World Peace 1950 Founded his own puppet-theatre, ‘Khela Ghar’, in collaboration with traditional Indian puppeteers 1952 Brought forth collection of lino-cuts ‘Angels Without Fairy Tales’ depicting Indian children as sufferers of poverty, disease and oppression 1960s Learnt the technique of Czech amateur puppetry from Mr Frantisek Salaba, a Czech amateur puppeteer in Bombay Felicitated by Gujrat Lalit Kala Akademi 1987 Valsad Jilla Chitrashirsak Sangh & Navsari Nagarpallika 1990 Artist of the year, Maharashtra State Government Select Collections Baroda Museum, Vadodara Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay Braganza Institute, Goa Budapest Museum, Budapest [Hungary] Godrej Boyce & Co., Mumbai Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art & Culture Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Nagpur Museum, Nagpur North Cote Nursing Home, Mumbai Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai Tata Services, Mumbai Victoria & Albert Museum, London [U.K.] Wipro Ltd., Mumbai Select Bibliography Books Venkatachalam, G. & Manu Thacker. Present-Day Painters of India. Manu Thacker Memorial Volume . Bombay: Sudhangshu Publications c.1950. (pp.17–20) Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp.52–3) Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Contemporary Indian Art . Madras: Vicha Fine Arts 1969. (p.15) H. Goetze (Ed.). Chavda . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Academi 1983. Sadwelkar, Baburao. Story Of A Hundred Years The Bombay Art Society 1888–1988 . Bombay: 1989. (p.69) Chaitanya, Krishna. A History of Indian Painting: The Modern Period . New Delhi: Abhinav Publications 1994. (p.238) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted; Harry Abrams NY 1998] (pp.202–3 & 214) Sheikh, Gulam m. (Ed.). Contemporary Art in Baroda . New Delhi: Tulika 1997. [Research & Documentation: Belinder Dhanoa. Contributors: G.m. Sheikh & N. Sheikh] (pp.43, 55 & 65) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. [Essay by Y. Dalmia] (p.16) Rm. Palaniappan. Major Trends in Indian Art . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1997. (pp.75 & 249) Mehta, Anupa (Ed.). A Collector’s Eye: The Jehangir Nicholson Collection – Selected Works . Mumbai 1998. (pp.25 & 92) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art. The Progressives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (pp. 66, 67, 145, 181 & 267) Sinha, Gayatri (Ed.). Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essay by Chaitanya Sambrani] (p.103) Karin Zitzewitz . The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art . Mumbai: Chemould Publications and Arts 2003. (pp.8, 24-5, 28 & 30) Journals & Essays Hartwell, Wayne M. ‘The Art of Young Chavda’ in Marg Vol.1 No.4 1947 . Bombay. (pp.55–60) Hartwell, Wayne M. ‘S. Chavda’ in Marg Vol.4 No.3 1950 . Bombay. (p.35) Chavda, Shiavax. ‘Action Drawings by S. Chavda at Recent Dance Recitals’ in Marg Vol.5 No.1 1951 . Bombay. (pp. 29–33) Appasamy, Jaya. ‘The Linear Mode’ in LKC 22 September 1976 . New Delhi. (p.1) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues NGMA. Catalogue of Collections, Vol.1 . New Delhi 1989. (p.193) Sotheby’s. Indian, European Oriental Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 1992. (L160) Jehangir Art Gallery. Shiavax Chavda Retrospective . Bombay 1995. [Ex. 2–8 February] Sotheby’s. Contemporary Indian Paintings . New York 1996. (L171) Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L24) Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art . London 1999. (L61 & L63) Nehru Centre. Millennium Show: A Century of Art from Maharashtra. Mumbai 2000. [Ex. Part 1/ 14–28 December; Part 2/ 30 December–13 January 2001; Text: Nina Rege] (pp.56 & 90) Christie’s. Islamic and Indian Works of Art . London 2001. (L372) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L83) Christie’s. Indian and Islamic Works of Art Including 20 th Century Indian Paintings . London 2003. (L520) Magazine & Newspaper Articles Shiavax Chavda. ‘Indian Dances’ in The Times of India Annual 1954, Bombay. Shiavax Chavda. ‘Kathakali Dancers’ in The Times of India Annual 1956, Bombay. Rudi von Leyden.’Indian Painters of Today’ in Onlooker Annual 1959, Bombay. ‘Christian Themes In Indian Art’ in The Illustrated Weekly Of India 29 November 1964, Mumbai.