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

191 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES GOPAL GHOSE b . 5 December 1913, Calcutta, West Bengal d . 30 July 1980 Education Studied under the tutelage of D.P. Roy Choudhury 1931-5 Diploma in Painting, Maharaja’s School of Arts and Crafts, Jaipur 1935-8 Diploma in Sculpture, Madras Art School Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1940-5 Teacher, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta Faculty, Architectural Design, Bengal Engineering College, West Bengal 1943 Founder Member, Calcutta Group Joint Secretary, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1950-67 Lecturer, Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta Solo Exhibitions 1952 Water Colours , 1 Chowringhee Terrace, Calcutta 1987 Retrospective , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (December) 1995 Retrospective , Private Residence, Calcutta (29 August–10 September) Retrospective , Presented by Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Birla Century Art Gallery, Bombay (18 October–10 November) 1997 The Pre-Independence Years , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta (12–17 August) Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore Kumar Gallery, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi The Gallery, Chennai Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai [U.A.E.] H.K. Kejriwal Collection Mukund Lath Family Collection, Jaipur Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art Archive Select Bibliography Books Venkatachalam, G. & Manu Thacker. Present-Day Painters of India . Manu Thacker Memorial Volume . Bombay: Sudhangshu Publications c.1950. (pp.72–4) Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (p.68) Jaya Appasamy (Ed.). Gopal Ghose . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1966. [Text: Dwijendra Moitra] Subramanyan, K.G. The Creative Circuit . Calcutta: Seagull Books 1992. (pp.13–5) Bhattacharya, Asok K. Calcutta Paintings . Calcutta: Department of Information & Culture 1994. (pp.110–1) Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. (p.199) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted: Harry Abrams NY 1998] (pp.195,198–9 & 202) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. [Essay by E. Datta] (p.39) CIMA. Art of Bengal – Past and Present . Calcutta 2000. [Essay by E. Datta] (pp.74 &152) Mitter, Partha. Indian Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001. (p.199) Sinha, Gayatri. (Ed.). Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essay by Sanjoy Mallik] (p.87 & 89) Karin Zitzewitz. The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art . Mumbai: Chemould Publications and Arts 2003. (p.45) Journals & Essays ‘ Gopal Ghose’ in Marg Vol. 5 No.1 1951 . Bombay. (pp.42–4) Ghose, Gopal. ‘Indian Art In Retrospect’ in AHJ Vol.3 No.3 August 1974 . New Delhi. Appasamy, Jaya. ‘Gopal Ghose’ in LKC 23 1977 . New Delhi. (pp.14–5) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues NGMA. Catalogue of Collections, Vol.1. New Delhi 1989. (pp.225 & 274) Gopal Ghose: A Retrospective . Calcutta1995. [Ex. 29 August–10 September] & Contemporary South Asian Paintings . London 1999. (L187) Delhi Art Gallery. Face Off 1900-1980s. Indian Old Masters and Moderns . New Delhi 2000. CIMA. Art of Bengal Past and Present, 1850–2000 . Kolkata 2000. [Ex.13–24 December; Curator: Ganesh Haloi] (pp.28– 30 & 118–9) Osian’s/Tuli. India: The Passionate- Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L35 & L54) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L12) Bowrings. Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 2001. (L26) Bowrings. European & Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings . New Delhi 2002. (L88) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Epic . India in the Making 1757-1950 . Mumbai 2002. (L59) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L2) Bowrings. Furniture, Works of Art, Paintings, Carpets & Clocks . Kolkata 2003. (L5 & L6)