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

210 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA b. 2 November 1907, Calcutta, West Bengal d. 5 October 1960, New Delhi Education 1928-32 Diploma in Art, Government School of Art, Calcutta Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1932-7 Art Director, Imperial Tobacco Company 1937 Participated in the World Scout Jamboree, Paris 1937-8 Toured France, England, Italy & Holland studying exhibitions and galleries, attended Cezanne’s centenary celebrations in Paris, visited exhibitions of Cezanne and Van Gogh in Paris, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, Tintoretto in Venice and Franz Hals in Haarlem. Also visited Egypt, Sikkim and Tibet. 1945-7 Art Teacher, Sarada Ukil School of Art, New Delhi 1948-60 Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi 1958 Member, Judging Committee, National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi Solo Exhibitions 1937 Calcutta 1939 Boy Scout Headquarters, Calcutta 1941 1, Chowringhee Terrace, Calcutta 1943 1, Chowringhee Terrace, Calcutta 1945 New Delhi Town Hall, New Delhi 1950 Retrospective , Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1960 Memorial Exhibition , Fine Arts Department, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi (2 November) 1961 Memorial Exhibition , Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1962 Memorial Exhibition , Kunika Art Centre, New Delhi 1983 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (31 May–12 June) 1998 Paintings in Opaque Water Colour , Art Konsult, New Delhi (25 August– 12 September) Awards & Honours 1933 Gold Medal, Art Exhibition, Calcutta University Institute 1936 Bombay Art Society 1951 Confession and Wind were exhibited at the famous Paris Exhibition, Salon de Mai where three hundred artists from twenty one countries including Masters like Picasso, Rouault and Leger participated Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Ashok & Anjali Alexander, New Delhi All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi Jehangir Nicholson Museum, N.C.P.A., Mumbai Kumar Gallery, New Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Select Bibliography Books Raman, A.S. Sailoz Mookherjea . New Delhi: Dhoomimal Dharamdas 1952. Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting. Madras: Rachana 1953. (p.72) Appasamy, Jaya (Ed.). Sailoz Mookherjea . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1966. Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Contemporary Indian Art . Madras: Vicha Fine Arts 1969. (p.11) Kapur, Geeta. Contemporary Indian Artists . New Delhi: Vikas Publishers 1978. (pp.51, 127 & 187) Moitra, Dwijendra (Ed.). The Academy of Fine Arts: Golden Jubilee – A Commemoration 1933–83 . Calcutta: Academy of Fine Arts 1983. (pp.5–7) Appasamy, Jaya . The Critical Vision: Selected Writings . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi1985. (pp.89–95) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. published by Harry Abrams, NY 1998] (pp.107 & 202–3) Mehta, Anupa (Ed.). A Collector’s Eye: The Jehangir Nicholson Collection – Selected Works . Bombay: 1998. (pp.56 & 94) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. (pp. 25, 36 & 40) AIFACS. Glimpses of Indian Art (1947– 1997) . New Delhi 1997. [Conceived: S.S. Bhagat; Text: Keshav Malik] (np) Rm. Palaniappan. Major Trends in Indian Art . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1997. (pp.58 & 247) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives . New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (pp.225 & 280) Journals & Essays ‘ Seven Contemporary Artists’ in Marg Vol 5. No.1 1951 Bombay. (pp.46–7) ‘Sailoz Mookherjea’ in Marg Vol.7. No.4 1954. Bombay. (p.59) Parimoo, Ratan. ‘Revivalism, Indigenous Factors or Modern Indian Art Reconsidered in the Context of Post Modernism’ in LKC 38 March 1993 . New Delhi. (p.16) Swaminathan, J. ‘Homage to Sailoz’ in LKC 40 1995 . New Delhi. (p.32) Swaminathan, J. ‘The Cygan: An Auto–Bio Note’ in LKC 40 1995 . New Delhi. (p.9) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues NGMA. Catalogue of Collections, Vol.1. New Delhi 1989. (pp.26 & 176–9) Sotheby’s. Modern & Contemporary Indian Paintings . London 1997. (L61) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay 1997. (L35 & L36) HEART/Tuli. I ntuitive-Logic: The Next Step . New Delhi 1999. (L178, L179, L180, L181 & L182) Sotheby’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art . New York 2000. (L243, L244 & L245) CIMA. Art of Bengal: Past and Present 1850– 2000 . Kolkata 2000. [Ex. 13–24 December; Curator: Ganesh Haloi] (p.231) Bowrings. Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 2001. (L23, L24 & L25) Osian’s/Tuli. India : the Passionate- Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L23 & L24) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L7, L47 & L48)) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Mela. The ABC Of India . Mumbai 2002. (L99 & L100) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Epic. India In The Making 1757–1950 . Mumbai 2002. (L145 & L146) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L8) Osian’s/Tuli. Forty Masterpieces. 20th Century Painting & Drawing From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka . Mumbai 2003. (L12) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L19, L117, L157 & L171)