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

188 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III Rao Bahadur MAHADEV VISVANATH DHURANDHAR b . 18 March 1867, Kolhapur, Maharashtra d . 1944 Education Studied under the tutelage of John Griffiths 1890-5 Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay Teaching Experience & Infrastructure-building Activities Drawing tutorship at a local girls’ school 1896 Teacher, Department of Drawing and Painting, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay 1897 Illustrated Griffiths’ article in the Journal of Indian Art 1910 Headmaster, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay 1914 Book illustrations for C.A. Kincaid’s Deccan Nursery Tales 1918-31 Inspector of Drawing & Craft, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay 1919-35 Indian Director, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay 1921 Assigned to decorate pylons, erected in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales. 1924 Book illustrations for Otto Rothfield’s Women of India 1934 Completed the paintings housed at Kusum Vilas Palace, Chota Udaipur The first Indian to design ethnographic postcards which were sent to Germany for printing Cartoonist of the Gujarati periodicals Aram and Bhoot Executed murals at the Law Room, Imperial Secretariat, New Delhi Awards & Honours 1890 Waudington Prize 1891 Best ‘Black & White’ painting, Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1894 Mayo Medal, Lahore 1895 Do You Come Laxmi? Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1904 Gold Medal, The Bombay Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition, Bombay Madras Fine Arts, Madras 1905 Congress Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition, Kolhapur 1907 Gold Medal, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, Pandharpur 1909 Nivedh , Madras Fine Arts, Madras 1910 Bride’s Maids , Gold Medal, Art and Industrial Exhibition, Jalgaon 1914 Gold Medal, Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition, Gwalior 1922 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1923 Wembley Exhibition, London 1927 Received the title of ‘Rao Bahadur’ from the British Government 1997 To commemorate Dhurandhar’s 53rd death anniversary, his daughter converted his home into a museum Select Collections Bombay Art Society, Mumbai Buckingham Palace, London [U.K.] Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum (previously the Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai Government Museum, Sangli Kusum Vilas Palace, Chota Udaipur, Gujarat Law Member’s Room, Imperial Secretariat, New Delhi Laxmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara [India] National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi South Kensington Museum, London [U.K.] University of Sussex [U.K.] Victoria & Albert Museum, London [U.K.] Select Bibliography Books Govt. of Maharashtra & Dean, Sir J.J. School (Pub.) Story of Sir J.J. School of Art. Bombay 1958. (pp.81-4, 96, 99-102, 120, 152 &155) Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992. (pp.39, 140–3, 145 & 282) Mitter, Partha. Art & Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. (pp.42–3, 55, 60, 86, 90–4, 103, 123, 215, 304, 330, 352 & 371) Sheikh, Gulam m. (Ed.). Contemporary Art in Baroda . New Delhi: Tulika 1997. [Research & Documentation: Belinder Dhanoa. Contributor: G.m. Sheikh] (p.50) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. [Essays by Y. Dalmia & E. Datta] (pp.10–1 & 30) Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective . New Delhi: National Book Trust 2000. (pp.45 & 48) Dhoomimal Gallery. Shanti Dave . New Delhi 1978. NGMA. Catalogue of Collections Vol.1. New Delhi 1989. (pp.105, 176, 232, 254, 257 & 272) Bombay Art Society. Story of a Hundred Years: The Bombay Art Society 1888–1989. Bombay 1989. [Compiler: Baburao Sadwelkar.] (p.90) Mukhopadhyay, Amit (Ed). Award Winners National Exhibition of Art 1955-1990 . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1990. (pp.8, 12 & 19) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II. Bombay 1997. (L133) ABC Academy of Art & Culture. An Exhibition of Paintings by Shanti Dave. Varanasi 1998. [Ex. 13–19 January] Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art. London 1999. (L108) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila. Mumbai 2001. (L114) Sarjan Art Gallery. Krishna Avtarana. Vadodara 2001. [Ex. 26–31 October] Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings. Mumbai 2002. (L145) Sarjan Art Gallery. Reflection. Vadodara 2003. [Ex. 24–28 February] Newspaper & Magazine Articles Rudi von Leyden.’Indian Painters of Today’ in Onlooker Annual 1959, Bombay. ‘Excellent Group Show At Pundole Gallery’ in The Indian Express 5 May 1971, Bombay. Rupika Chawla. ‘The Green Room’ in The Sunday Express 26 October 2003, Mumbai.