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

201 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES PROKASH KARMAKAR b . 1933, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1950-7 Artistic apprenticeship with Dilip Das Gupta in his studio 1953 Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1968 Studied art on a Fellowship for a year in France Teaching and Infrastructure–building Activities 1950s Spearheaded a movement for taking art to the public 1961 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists 1964 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters 1964-5 Worked in Nirode Mazumdar’s studio, Calcutta 1971 Selected as Vice-President, Prayag Kala Samity Founder Member, Calcutta Art Fair Solo Exhibitions 1949 Drawings , Galerie 88, Calcutta 1953 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1955 Calcutta 1959 Pavement Show, Calcutta Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1960 Calcutta 1962 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1963 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1964 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Calcutta 1967 Calcutta 1969 Calcutta New Delhi 1970 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Paris 1971 New Delhi 1974 Calcutta 1976 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1977 Calcutta 1983 Calcutta 1984 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi 1988 Gallery BF/ 14, Calcutta 1989 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1992 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1993 Calcutta L.T.G. Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Calcutta 1996 New Delhi 1999 Calcutta 2000 Calcutta 2002 Prokash Karmakar: Recent Works , Galerie 88, Kolkata Awards & Honours 1957 Certificate of Merit, the Annual National Exhibition, New Delhi 1966 The Passion Gropes , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1968 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Fellowship to study art in Paris by the Government of France 1969-70 Additional grant for extensive travel in Western Europe 1970 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Calcutta 1976 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Special Award, Maha Koshla Kala Parishad, Raipur 1996 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1999 Abanindra Puraskar, Government of West Bengal Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Allahabad Museum, Allahabad Art Heritage, New Delhi Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad Lalit Kala Akademi, Bangalore, Lucknow & New Delhi Lucknow Museum, Lucknow National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art Archive Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai [U.A.E.] Tata Centre, Jamshedpur Select Bibliography Books Drawings By Fourteen Contemporary Artists Of Bengal . Calcutta: Priti Mukherjee & Bhawani Mullick 1970. (np) Bhattacharya, Asok. Calcutta Paintings . Calcutta: Department of Information and Cultural Affairs 1994. (pp.117 &122) Khanna, Balraj & Aziz Kurtha. Art Of Modern India . London: Thames and Hudson 1998. (p.134) CIMA. Art of Bengal – Past and Present . Calcutta 2000. [Essay by E. Datta] Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective . New Delhi: National Book Trust 2001. (pp.45 &121) Journals & Essays Dutta, Ajit Kumar. ‘Prokash Karmakar’ in LKC 17 April 1974 . New Delhi. (pp.21–2) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Galerie 88. Exhibition Of Paintings . New Delhi 1992. [Ex. Sridharini Art Gallery 10–16 December] Galerie 88. Exhibition Of Paintings . Bombay 1992. [Ex. Jehangir Art Gallery 18–25 December] Osian’s/Tuli. India: the Passionate Detachment . Mumbai 2001 (L198 & L199) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai 2002 (L53, L54 & L112) Gallerie 88. Prokash Karmakar . Kolkata: 2002 [Ex. 9–30 April. Text: Sandip Sarkar.] Bonhams. Islamic and Indian Art . London 2002. (L603, L604, L606 & L615) Osian’s/Tuli. Forty Masterpieces. 20 th Century Painting & Drawing From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka . Mumbai 2003. (L30) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L61) Newspaper & Magazine Articles Samir Dasgupta. ‘Serenity and Rancour’ in The Telegraph 22 November 2002, Kolkata.