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

186 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SHANTI DAVE b . 1931, Badapura Village near Ahmedabad, Gujarat Education Studied under the tutelage of N.S. Bendre 1950-6 Graduation, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda 1956 Post-Graduate Diploma in painting, M.S. University, Baroda Teaching Experience & Infrastructure-building Activities 1948 Before matriculation started career as sign board and banner painter 1954 Mural for Vanasthali Vidya Pith, Rajasthan 1956 Two murals for Parliament House, New Delhi 1957 Founder Member/ Joint Secretary, Baroda Group of Artists 1960 Murals for Air India at Bombay, New Delhi, Frankfurt, New York, Los Angeles 1961 Mural for Union Bank, New Delhi 1963 Mural for Air India, Rome 1964 Murals for Air India at the Kennedy International Airport, New York, Sydney and Perth 1965 Murals for Oberoi Intercontinental, New Delhi 1967 Murals at EXPO ‘67 Montreal, Indian Pavilion, Montreal 1969 Mural for Gandhi Centenary Celebrations, New Delhi 1971 Member of the ADHOC committee of protesting artists whose recommendations were accepted by the Government Commission on Lalit Kala Akademi 1989 Shiromani Purashkar, Asian Paints 2000 Book Dharmanarayan Dasgupta (1939–1997) Representing the Bengali Modern released by Akbar Padamsee, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (13 July) Select Collections Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata Chitrakala Parishath Museum, Bangalore Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Museum, Hemeji National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sara Abraham Family Collection Mukund & Neerja Lath Family Collection, Jaipur Select Bibliography Books Indian Art Since The Early 40’s A Search For Identity . Madras: Artists’ Handicrafts Association 1974. (p.124) Sengupta, Kajal & Sohini Sen (Eds.). Society of Contemporary Artists Calcutta Album 1960– 1991 . Calcutta: Society of Contemporary Artists 1991. (np) Khanna, Balraj & Aziz Kurtha. Art Of Modern India . London: Thames and Hudson 1998. (pp.132) CIMA. Art of Bengal – Past and Present . Calcutta 2000. [Essay by Ella Datta] (pp. 77 &179) Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art In India A Perspective . New Delhi: National Book Trust 2000. (pp.111–2) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Kala Yatra. Contemporary Indian Painting And Sculpture. New Delhi c.1979. BAAC. Eight Contemporary Artists. Calcutta 1987. [Ex. 9–31 January] BAAC. Calcutta 300 . Calcutta 1990. [Ex. 7–26 August] CIMA. Trends and Images . Calcutta 1993. [Ex. 20 November–12 December] Casa Paradox. Dharmanarayan Dasgupta New Delhi 1995. [Ex. 22–31 January] Whiteleys Art Gallery. Chamatkara Myth and Magic In Indian Art . London 1996. [Ex. 29 October–15 November] (pp. 59, 109 &110) Son-Et-Lumiere Art Gallery. Contemporary Bengal Art . Mumbai 1997. [Ex. 18–31 January] Society Of Contemporary Artists at BAAC. Dharmanarayan Dasgupta Retrospective . Calcutta 1997. [Ex. 16–28 December] HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay1997. (L182) Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L130) Sotheby’s. Modern & Indian Contemporary Paintings . New York 1997. (L91) Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art . London 1998. (L115) HEART/Tuli. Intuitive-Logic: The Next Step . New Delhi 1999. (L235) Jehangir Art Gallery. Dharmanarayan Dasgupta (1939 –1997) Mumbai 2000. [Ex.13–19 July] Vadehra Art Gallery. Dharmanarayan Dasgupta (1939 –1997) New Delhi 2000. [Ex. 27 September–16 October) Gallerie 88. Dharmanarayan Dasgupta (1939–1997). Kolkata 2000. [Ex. 4–30 November]