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

195 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN b . 17 September1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra Education Formal training for a year at the Indore School of Art, under the tutelage of D.D. Deolalikar and guidance of senior student N.S. Bendre and trained briefly at Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. Formal academic and art education incomplete. Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1937 Apprentice to a painter of cinema hoardings in Bombay 1941 Began as a furniture and toy designer 1948 Joined the Progressive Artists’ Group 1952 Part of a 60-member delegation from India at the World Peace Conference, China 1954 Nominated as an eminent artist member of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1957 Murals for Air India International in Hongkong, Bangkok, Zurich and Prague 1963 Mural, World Health Organisation, New Delhi 1964 Mural, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay Mural in mosaic for Aligarh University, Aligarh 1986-92 Nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Produced the Sansad Portfolio during his six-year term. 1988 Fund raising programme for the Bombay Art Society with Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, at Tata Theatre, Bombay Early 90s established a museum called ‘Sankalana’ in Bangalore, on land allotted by the then Chief Minister of Karnataka, Ramakrishna Hegde 1991 Painted his Satyajit Ray series as part of the Indian Express fund raiser for victims of the Garhwal earthquake 1992 Established his gallery, ‘Husain ki Sarai’, in Faridabad 1995 ‘Husain-Doshi Gufa’ in Ahmedabad, collaboration between the painter and an architect to construct a gallery so as to make collections of his paintings accessible to the public. Inaugurated on 29 January. Solo Exhibitions 1950 Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay 1956 Gallery Palette, Zurich 1955 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1956 Gallery Palette, Zurich Gallery Mannes, Prague 1960 Kunst Kabinet, Frankfurt (Organised by Henna Bekkar von Rath & Kumar Gallery) Asoka Gallery, Calcutta 1961 Asoka Gallery, Calcutta Gallery Chemould, Bombay Tokyo Gallery Pax, Rome 1962 Bombay & New Delhi Asoka Gallery, Calcutta 1964 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi India House, New York 1965 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1965 Drawings – The Arab Image , Gallery Chemould, Bombay, Calcutta & New Delhi Gallery Wasity, Baghdad & Kabul 1966 Bombay Oberoi Intercontinental Hotel, New Delhi 1967 New York, Poland & Czechoslovakia Dhoomimal Gallery & Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi 1968 Images of Kerala , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Six Days of Making: Movements and Moods in Paintings , Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi (27 December–1 January 1969) 1969 Dhoomimal Gallery & Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi 21 Years of Painting , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (Organised by Gallery Chemould) Taj Art Gallery, Bombay (March) Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi (July) Gallerie du Grand Meselles, Geneva 1971 Ashoka Hotel Gallery, New Delhi (Organised by Gallery Chanakya and Pundole Art Gallery) 1972 Paintings 1971 , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Family Oil on canvas, 1961