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

218 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SAYED HAIDER RAZA b. 22 February 1922, Babaria, Madhya Pradesh Education 1939-43 Painting, Nagpur School of Art. 1943-7 Sir J.J School of Art, Bombay 1950-3 Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (on a French Government Scholarship) Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1948-50 Founder Member, Progressive Artists’ Group, Bombay 1948 Invited by Sheikh Abdullah to visit Kashmir 1962 University of California invited him as a Visiting Lecturer at the Art Department, Berkeley Solo Exhibitions 1947-8 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1950 Charles Petras’s Institute of Foreign Languages, Bombay. 1958 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris 1959 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1959-60 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal 1960 Galerie Charpentier, Paris Ecole de Paris 1961 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris Ecole de Paris 1962-8 Galerie Dresdnere, Montreal 1962 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris Ecole de Paris Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, University of California 1963-8 Dom Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1964 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris 1967 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris 1968 Tecta Galerie, Dusseldorf, W. Germany Gallery Chemould, Bombay (15–27 April) 1969 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris 1974 La Palette, Trouville, France 1975 Galleria Matuzia, San Remo, Italy 1976 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Gallery Chemould, Bombay Stavanger Kunstforening Galerie, Norway 1977 La Tete de l’Art, Grenoble, France 1978 Utsav, Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Bhopal 1979 Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway 1980 Galleriet, Oslo 1982 Galerie Loeb, Berne, Swirzerland Galerie J.Y. Noblet, Grenoble 1984 Recent Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (20 February–7 March) 1985 Galerie Pierre Parat, Paris 1987 La Tete de l’Art, Grenoble, France 1988 Gallery Chemould, Bombay Galleri Koloritten, Stavanger, Norway 1990 Recent Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (24 January–10 February) 1991 Galerie Eterso, Cannes Retrospective 1952-91, Palais Carnoles, Musee des Beaux-Art, Menton (24 August–7 October) 1992 Jehangir Nicholson Museum, NCPA, Bombay Parcours des Arts, La Louvesc, France 1994 L’Artotheque d’Enterprise, Group Michel Ferrier, Echirolle, Grenoble 1997 Avartan, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (21 February–2 March) National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (10 March–10 April) Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (6–16 February) Le Parcons du regard, Oletta, Corsices, France Galleri Grewal Mohanjeet, Paris 1999 Raza, Apparao Galleries-Art 54 Gallery, New York (2–14 June) 2001 Mindscapes, Early Works 1945-50, Delhi Art Gallery (3–21 March) 2002 The Sacred Search, Apparao Galleries, Chennai Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (22–28 February) Prints on Canvas, Tao Art Gallery (19–26 February) Awards & Honours 1946 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1948 Bombay View, Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society 1956 Prix de la Critique, Paris (The only HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay 1997. (L60, L61 & L62) Lalit Kala Akademi. Pictorial Space: A Point of View on Contemporary Indian Art. New Delhi 1998. [Ex. Rabindra Bhavan 14 December 1997–3 January 1998. Text: Geeta Kapur] (np) NGMA. Delhi Silpi Chakra The Early Years. New Delhi 1998. [Curator: P.N. Mago] (pp.44–5) HEART/Tuli. Intuitive-Logic: The Next Step . New Delhi 1999. (L211, L212 & L270c) Vadehra Art Gallery. Ram Kumar Recent Works. New Delhi 2000. [Ex. 6–26 January] Osian’s/Tuli. India: the Passionate Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L61) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L94) Christie’s. Southeast Asian & 20th Century India Pictures . Hong Kong 2003. (L85 & L86) Christie’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art including 20th Century Indian Paintings . New York 2003. (L149, L161, L172 & L174) Vadehra Art Gallery. Ram Kumar. New Delhi 2003. [Ex. 13 November–13 December] Newspaper & Magazine Articles Richard Bartholomew. ‘Ram Kumar: The Early Years’ in Hindustan Times Weekly 23 October 1955, New Delhi. Rudi von Leyden. ‘Indian Painters of Today’ in Onlooker Annual 1959, Bombay. Richard Bartholomew. ‘Impressions of Varanasi’ in Thought 7 May 1960. Gieve Patel. ‘A Search For Austerity’ in The Times Of India 13 October 1966, Bombay. ‘Ram Kumar’s Paintings Show Unity Of Style’ in The Times Of India 13 February 1969, Bombay. ‘Sophisticated Technique of Ram Kumar’ in The Economic Times 17 February 1969, Bombay. ‘Excellent Group Show At Pundole Gallery’ in The Indian Express 5 May 1971, Bombay. ‘The Traditional Choice’ in The Illustrated Weekly Of India 9 April 1989, Bombay. Veena, Kotian. ‘ Review: Ramkumar A Journey Within’ in Art India Vol.1 No.3 October–December 1996. Bombay. (p.70) Jerry Pinto. ‘Imaging the Imminent’ in The Times Of India 27 May 1998, Mumbai. Vidya Shivadas. ‘Mauni Master’ in The Indian Express 4 March 2001, Mumbai. Uma Nair. ‘Strokes That Speak’ in Asian Age 28 July 2002, Mumbai. Shailaja Tripathi.’Reluctant Maestro’ in The Sunday Express 16 November 2003, Mumbai.