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

200 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SANAT KAR b . 1935, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1950-5 Diploma in Painting, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities Teacher, Calcutta Boys’ School 1950s Dilip Dasgupta’s Studio 1953-9 Founder Member & Secretary, Artists Circle, Calcutta 1960-74 Founder Member & Secretary, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1961 Founder Member & Secretary, First Calcutta Art Fair 1972-3 Innovator, Wood Intaglio 1974-6 Teacher, Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan 1975-6 Innovator, Engravings on mica 1976-89 Head, Graphic Arts Faculty, Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan 1976 Seminar on Art Education, Lalit Kala Akademi, Calcutta 1977 U.G.C. All India Seminar on Art Education at Visvabharati University, Santiniketan Proposer and Co-ordinator. First All India Artists Camp, Garhi Studios, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1981 Seminar on the Evolution of Printmaking in India, Lalit Kala Akademi & Visvabharati University, Santiniketan 1985 Demonstration lecture, College of Fine Arts, Kerala University, Innovator, Cardboard Intaglio 1986 Member of Jury, National Exhibition of Art 1988 Member of Jury, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, All India Exhibition, Manipur 1989-91 Principal, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1990 Demonstration lecture, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan 1992 Seminar, Silpaka Academy, Bangladesh Solo Exhibitions 1962 Prints Art Gallery, Calcutta 1967 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta 1969 Triveni Gallery, New Delhi 1970 Bombay 1972 New Delhi 1975 Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1979 Bangalore 1980 Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1981 Goa 1984 Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi Exhibition of Graphics, Galerie 88, Calcutta (16–31 December) 1985 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay Camlin Gallery, Bombay Sarala Art Gallery, Madras 1988 Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Festival of India, Japan Kala Yatra Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore 1989 Tempera on Paper & Graphics , Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (3–15 April) 1990 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1991 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1992 Sanskriti Art Gallery, Calcutta (17–26 January) Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi (15–31 October) 1994 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1995 Calcutta 2000 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (16–28 March) Awards & Honours 1973 All India Fine Arts Exhibition, New Delhi 1984 International Prints Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Calcutta 1993 West Bengal Lalit Kala Akademi 1996 Asian Paints Shiromoni Purashkar Select Collections Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Pratt Graphic Arts’ Centre, New York [U.S.A.] Punjab University Museum, Patiala Sara Abraham Family Collection H.K. Kejriwal Family Collection Select Bibliography Books Drawings By Fourteen Contemporary Artists Of Bengal . Calcutta: Priti Mukherjee & Bhawani Mullick 1970. [Introduction by Nirode Mazumdar.] (np) Sengupta, Kajal & Sohini Sen (Ed.). Society of Contemporary Artists Calcutta Album 1960– 1991 . Calcutta: Society of Contemporary Artists 1991. (np) Bhattacharya, Asok. Calcutta Paintings . Calcutta: Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal 1994. (pp.117) Chaitanya, Krishna. A History of Indian Painting – The Modern Period . New Delhi: Abhinav Publications 1994. (pp.304–305) Journals & Essays Banerjee, Arany. ‘Sanat Kar’ in LKC 18 September 1974 . New Delhi. (pp.28–30) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Nandan. Intaglios, Wood-Intaglios & Paintings by Sanat Kar . Santiniketan 1975. [1–7 September; Text: Somnath Hore] BAAC. Eight Contemporary Artists . Calcutta 1987. [Ex. 9–31 January] Pundole Art Gallery. Tempera on Paper and Graphics by Sanat Kar . Bombay 1989. [Ex. 3–15 April; Text: K.G. Subramanyan] Vadehra Art Gallery. Sanat Kar . New Delhi 1992. [Ex. 15–31 October] Galerie 88. Graphics by Sanat Kar. Calcutta 1994. [Ex. 16–31 December; Text: Sanat Kar] Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L139) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay 1997. (L109 & L110) Son-Et-Lumiere Art Gallery. Contemporary Bengal Art . Mumbai 1997. [Ex. 18–31 January] Chitrakoot Art Gallery. Temperas – Sanat Kar. Kolkata, March 2000. [Ex. 16–28 March; Text: Arun Nag & Mukund Lath] Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L152) BAAC. A Retrospective of Bronzes and Prints . Kolkata 2002. [Text: R. Siva Kumar & Mrinal Ghosh] Osian’s/Tuli. Forty Masterpieces. 20 th Century Painting & Drawing From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka . Mumbai 2003. (L19) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L181) BAAC. Sanat Kar: Bronzes, Gouaches & Prints . Mumbai 2003. [Ex. 12–26 July] Newspaper & Magazine Articles ‘Wonders of Nature’ in The Sunday Statesman 19 March 2000, Calcutta Samir Dasgupta. ‘Talent Often Takes Time to Bloom’ in The Telegraph 4 October 2002, Kolkata.