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

205 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES ISHA MAHAMMAD b. 1933, Konnagar, West Bengal Education 1958 Diploma in Painting & Drawing (Life, Nature & Murals), Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta Teacher’s Training Art Appreciation Certificate, Calcutta University 1964 Pre-University Examination, Calcutta University 1968 Invited by Federal Republic of Germany for a study tour to London & Paris Teaching & Infrastructure–building Activities 1962 Lecturer, Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1980-94 Vice Principal & Principal, Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta Member, Calcutta Painters Painted several portraits for public halls such as Assembly House, Raj Bhavan and Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta Solo Exhibitions 1960 Darjeeling 1964 Indo-American Society, Calcutta 1967 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1968 Private Residence, West Germany 1969 Alliance Francaise, Calcutta 1969 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1971 Alliance Francaise, Calcutta 1987 Bedford Hill Gallery, London 1990 Genesis Art Gallery, Calcutta (February) 1992 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (5–29 August) 1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (1–6 September) 1997 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (July) Taj Art Gallery, Bombay (5–11 August) Awards & Honours 1956 Graphic Art, Calcutta University Institute 1972 Painting, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Select Collections Assembly House, New Delhi Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Museum fur Indische Kunst, Dalhem, Berlin, Germany Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi Raj Bhavan, New Delhi State Academy of Art, Manipur Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata Private Collections in USA, Canada, France, Yugoslavia, West Germany, U.A.E. and India. Select Bibliography Books Mazumdar, Nirode . Drawings by Fourteen Contemporary Artists of Bengal . Calcutta: Priti Mukherjee & Bhawani Mullick 1970. (np) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Tao Art Gallery . Paintings. Mumbai 1971. [Ex. 5–11 August] BAAC . Paintings, Drawings & Graphics by Isha Mahammad – A Retrospective 1956– 1999. Calcutta 1999. [Ex. 20 February– 4 March; Text: Arun Ghose] Osian’s/Tuli. India: the Passionate Detachment . Mumbai:2001. (L150) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai: 2001. (L140) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai: 2002. (L113) Bowrings. European & Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings . New Delhi 2002. (L167) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L67) Newspaper & Magazine Articles Peer. ‘The Art of Isha Mahammad’ in Hindusthan Standard 17 February 1966, Calcutta. Manasij Majumder. ‘Stress on Realistic Details’ in The Telegraph February 1990, Calcutta. Jaya Ramanathan. ‘Art Beat’ in Hindustan Times 18 July 1992, New Delhi. Krishna Chaitanya. ‘Fine Studies of Muslim life’ in Hindustan Times 16 August 1992, New Delhi. V.B. ‘His Inner Psyche’ in Evening News 10 August 1992, New Delhi. Keshav Malik. ‘Rooted in His Habitat’ in The Times of India 27 August 1992, New Delhi. Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni. ‘Emotive Splendour’ in Mid-Day 31 August 1994, Bombay. Meher Pestonji. ‘Making a Square Dynamic’ in Independent 31 August 1994, Bombay. Niyatee. ‘Evocative Expressions’ in The Indian Express 1 September 1994, Bombay. Arkay. ‘Masterpieces by Isha Mohammed’ in The Afternoon Despatch & Courier 2 September 1994, Bombay. R.T. Shahani. ‘An Unusual Synthesis’ in The Daily Mail 4 September 1994, Bombay. Alpana Lath. ‘Paradise Lost’ in Mid-Day 6 August 1997, Bombay. Samir Dasgupta. ‘Serenity and Rancour’ in The Telegraph 22 November 2002, Kolkata.