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

194 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SAVLARAM LAXMAN HALDANKAR b . 25 November 1882, Sawantwadi, Konkan, Maharashtra d. 30 May 1968, Bombay, Maharashtra Education 1903-7 Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay (Teachers included Cecil L. Burns, Walter Robotham, Ganpatrao Kedari, A.X. Trinidade, S.P. Agaskar & M.V. Dhurandhar) Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1908 Founder, Haldankar’s Fine Art Institute, Bombay 1918 President & Founder Member, Art Society of India, Bombay President, Maharashtra Chitrakar Mandal Member, Hansa Mehta Committee for re- organisation of Art Education Commissioned to paint portraits of Late Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Jagannath Sunkersett, Sir John Beaumont, Lady and Sir Leslie Wilson, Rajasaheb of Sawantwadi & others Awards & Honours 1910 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1915 Two Commendation Certificates, Royal British Society of Art, London 1925 Mohamedan Pilgrim , Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society 1927 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1932 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1915 Commendation Certificates, Royal British Society of Art, London 1964 Felicitated by the President, Dr Rajendra Prasad for the Portrait of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya 1965 Conferred Fellowship, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Collections Academy of Art, Moscow [Russia] Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum (Previously Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Directorate of Art, Government of Maharashtra Jagmohan Palace, Mysore Kota Museum, Kota Mysore Palace Museum, Mysore Nagpur Museum, Nagpur National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Shri Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery, Mysore Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai Sri Bhavani Museum, Aundh Select Bibliography Books Govt. of Maharasthra & Dean, Sir J.J. School (Pub.) Story of Sir J.J. School of Art. Bombay 1958. (pp.89, 95-6) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted: Harry Abrams NY 1998] (p.200) Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective . New Delhi: National Book Trust 2000. (pp.45 & 48) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art . The Progressives . New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (pp.13, 251& 261) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Bombay Art Society. Story of a Hundred Years The Bombay Art Society 1888–1988: The Retrospective Exhibition of Old Masters. Bombay 1989. [Compiler: Baburao Sadwelkar.] (p.18) Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L13) Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art . London 1998. (L1) Nehru Centre . S.L. Haldankar & G.S. Haldankar. Bombay 1998. Nehru Centre. Kalamaharshi Savlaram Laxman Haldankar (1882–1968) & Gajanan Savlaram Haldankar (1912–1981): The Great Indian Master Painters. Bombay 1999. [Ex. 18 December 1998–4 January 1999.] Sotheby’s. Indian Miniatures The Travel Sale – India and the Far East Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings . London 2000. (L196 & L197) Bonhams. Modern & Contemporary Paintings from the Indian Sub-Continent . London 2000. (L89, L90 & L91) Nehru Centre/Kulkarni, S.K. (Ed.). The Millennium Show: A Century of Art from Maharashtra . Mumbai 2000. [Ex. Part 1: 14– 28 December 2000 & Part II: 30 December 2000–13 January 2001. Text: Nina Rege.] (pp.5 & 26-7) Bonhams. Modern & Contemporary Paintings from the Indian Sub-Continent . London 2001. (L10) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Epic. India In The Making 1757-1950 . Mumbai 2002. (L113 & L132) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L6) Jehangir Art Gallery. Master Strokes II . Mumbai 2003. [Ex. 10–18 December] Delhi Art Gallery. Poetry and Patriotic Fervour An Exhibition of Indian Art Pre-Independence New Delhi 2003.