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

206 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III ANJOLIE ELA MENON b. 17 July 1940, Burnpur, West Bengal Education Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay (unfinished studies) B.A. (Literature), Delhi University, New Delhi 1959-61 Atelier Fresque, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (on a French Government Scholarship) 1980-1 Study Tour of France, U.K. & U.S.A. (on invitation by the respective Governments) Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1966 Commissioned to do a portrait of Mrs. Indira Gandhi 1996 Co-Curator, Exhibition of French Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Advisory Committee & Art Purchase Committee, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Trustee, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Represented India at the Algiers Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil and three Triennales in New Delhi Solo Exhibitions 1959 Gallery 59, Bhulabhai Institute, Bombay 1963 Alliance Francaise de Bombay 1973 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (25 November–1 December) 1976 Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1978 New Delhi 1980 New York Washington D. C. 1988 Retrospective 1950–88 , Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay PRADIP MAITRA b. 5 April 1959, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1984 Graduated (B.A.), Calcutta University 1985 Graduated in Visual Arts with 1st Class, Indian Art College, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta Teaching Experience & Infrastructure-building Activities 1988 Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta Solo Exhibitions 1983 Sponsored by Bata India Ltd., Calcutta 1987 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1988 Seagull Foundation and Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1989 Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1991 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1992 The Gallery, Madras 1994 Gallery 42, New Delhi 1999 Gallery 42, New Delhi 2001 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (7–13 June) 2003 Guest Artist, South Eastern Railways on the occasion of ‘150 years of Indian Railways’ Awards & Honours 1980-2 College Annual Award 1983 As a young artist invited to participate in a show with M. F. Husain at the Tata Centre 1985 Annual Award, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1986 Drawing, West Bengal Government 1987 Water Colour, West Bengal Government All India Exhibition Of Art, Orissa Lalit Kala Akademi Certificate of Merit, All India Youth Art Exhibition Select Collections Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Duncan House, Kolkata Governor House, Orissa Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore Lancashire University, Lancashire [U.K.] Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Reliance Industries, Mumbai Private Collections in Germany, U.S.A, France. Select Bibliography Books Sengupta, Kajal & Sohini Sen (Eds.). Society of Contemporary Artists Calcutta Album 1960– 1991 . Calcutta: Society of Contemporary Artists 1991. (np) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay 1997. (L121) Son-Et-Lumiere Art Gallery. Contemporary Bengal Art . Mumbai 1997. [Ex. 18–31 January] Bonhams. Modern & Contemporary Paintings from the Indian Sub-Continent . London 2000. (L171) Jehangir Art Gallery. Water Colours Pradip Maitra. Mumbai 2001. [Ex. 7–13 June] Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration. Mumbai 2003. (L120) Delhi Art Gallery. Manifestations . Indian Art in the 20th Century. New Delhi 2003 [Ex. 29 November–13 Decembe] (p.47) Newspaper & Magazine Articles ‘Missing, The Surprise Element’ in The Telegraph 13 December 2002, Kolkata.