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

180 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III BIJAN CHOWDHURY b . 1931, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1945-9 Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1953 Graduation, Government Institute of Arts, Dacca Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1961 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists 1963 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters Group 1976-80 Principal, Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Calcutta Member, Advisory Committee of Fine Arts, Government of West Bengal Council Member, Democratic Writers and Artists Association, West Bengal Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Lakshmir Pariksha , published by Visva Bharati Wrote a book on art, Silpa Katha , published by State Resource Centre for Adult Education, West Bengal Solo Exhibitions 1962 Arts and Prints Gallery, Calcutta 1963 Arts and Prints Gallery, Calcutta Patna 1974 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1977 Retrospective , Alliance Francaise, Calcutta 1982 Miniature Exposition, Paris 1985 British High Commission, Calcutta 1986 Retrospective , Art Heritage, New Delhi 1989 Paintings of Indian Music , Galerie 88, Calcutta 1992 Art Heritage, New Delhi Awards & Honours 1963 Academy of Fine Arts Award, Calcutta 1978 Rabindra Bharati Award, Calcutta 1995 Abanindra Puraskar William Carey Award ‘Bijan’, A Documentary made on his life by Chris Noonan Select Collections Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Ebrahim Alkazi & Art Heritage, New Delhi Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai [U.A.E.] Gaganendra Art Gallery [Government of West Bengal], Kolkata National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art Archive Tarun & Priti Kataria, [Hong Kong] Select Bibliography Books Bhattacharya, Asok. Calcutta Paintings . Calcutta: Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal 1994. (pp.117 &122) Chaitanya, Krishna. A History of Indian Painting – The Modern Period . New Delhi: Abhinav Publications 1994. (p.289) Tuli, Neville . The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams NY 1998.] (p.217) CIMA. Art of Bengal – Past and Present . Calcutta 2000. [Essay by E. Datta] (pp.75–7 & 228) Journals & Essays Sarkar, Sandip. ‘Bijan Choudhury and Gopal Sanyal’ in LKC 22 September1976 . New Delhi. (pp.18–20) Sarkar, Sandip. ‘Bijan Choudhury: An Appreciation’ in AHJ 6 1986–87 . New Delhi. (pp.34–7) Chowdhury, Bijan. ‘Recent Paintings’ in AHJ 1998 . New Delhi. Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Arts & Prints Gallery. Paintings by Bijan Choudhury. Calcutta 1963. [Ex. 27 January–5 February; Text: S.B. Chatterjee] BAAC. Bijan Choudhury – Recent Paintings and Drawings. Calcutta 1974. [Ex. 27 March–7 April; Text: Sandip Sarkar] Alliance Francaise. A Retrospective Exhibition Of Paintings and Drawings by Bijan Choudhury . Calcutta 1977. [Ex. 14–20 February; Text: J.F. Maure] British Council. Paintings, Drawings & Graphics by Bijan Choudhury . 1985. [Ex. 17–23 September] Jehangir Art Gallery. An Exhibition of Sculptures by Debrata Chakraborty & Paintings by Bijan Choudhury . Bombay 1993. [Ex. 27 May–2 June; Text: Samik Bandyopadhyay] Art Heritage. Recent Paintings by Bijan Chowdhury . New Delhi 1998. [Ex. Triveni Kala Sangam; 20 February–4 March] Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Epic. India In The Making 175 –1950 . Mumbai 2002. (L122 & L147) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L110) Bonhams. Islamic and Indian Art . London 2002. (L612 & L616) Osian’s/Tuli. Forty Masterpieces. 20th Century Painting & Drawing From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka . Mumbai 2003. (L33) Osian’s/Tuli . Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L100) Bonhams. Islamic and Indian Art . London 2002. (L612 & L616) Newspaper & Magazine Articles ‘Exhibition of Paintings by Bijan Chowdhury’ in Amrita Bazar Patrika 10 February 1962, Calcutta. ‘Neo-Kalighat Paintings’ in The Statesman 30 January 1963, Calcutta ‘A Striking Exhibition’ in The Statesman 20 April 1968, Calcutta. ‘Trends In Contemporary Art’ in Art News June–July 1969, New Delhi. Manasij Majumder. ‘With a Passion for Form’ in The Telegraph 21 September 1985, Calcutta. M.M. ‘Revealing a Passion for Music’ in The Telegraph 29 March 1989, Calcutta. Kishore Chatterjee. ‘Search for Parallel Language’ in The Statesman 1 April 1989, Calcutta. Santo Datta. ‘Where Many Rivers Meet’ in The Hindu 28 December 1992, Madras. Kishore Chatterjee. ‘Art for Harmony’ in The Statesman 19 June 1993, Calcutta.