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

225 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES GHULAM RASOOL SANTOSH b. 19 June 1929, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir / d. 1997 Education 1947-53 Self-taught craftsman, painter & weaver 1954-6 M.S. University, Baroda on a Cultural Scholarship, Government of India, under the tutelage of N.S. Bendre Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1963 Published Urdu novel, Samandar Pyasa Hai 1978 Published a collection of poems in Kashmiri, Besukh Ruh 1980 Published Shakti Vichhara and Vakh in Kashmiri 1991 Jury Member, 63rd All India Art Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi (31 March–10 April) Solo Exhibitions 1953-7 Srinagar & Bombay 1962 Los Angeles Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1963 Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago 1963-65 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi; Gallery Mayer, New York; Calcutta; Kabul & Tel-Aviv 1964 Revel Gallery, New York 1967 Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi 1968 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi Chemould Art Gallery, Bombay 1969 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Bistidari, New Delhi Portraits, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1971 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1973 Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1974 Show dedicated to Urdu writer Thakur Poonchi, Srinagar, Kashmir 1975 Pencil Drawings, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1976 Acrylics, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1978 Triveni Kala Sangam, Sponsored by Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1983 South Korea 1985 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1989 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1991 L.T.G. Gallery, New Delhi 1992 Bombay 1994 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi Awards & Honours 1957 Peace , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1955-6 Street Scene , Governor of Bombay’s Prize 1959 First Prize, Kalidasa Jayanti Exhibition 1964 Nearer to Thee my Lord , National Award, Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi 1973 Untitled , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1977 Padmashree, Government of India 1979 Besukh Ruh (collection of poems), Sahitya Akademi Award 1984 Artist of the Year Award, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi 1985 Kalhana Award, The Kashmir Education and Science Society, New Delhi 1991 Kala Ratna Award, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Select Collections Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji [Japan] National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Chester & Davida Herwitz Collection, Worcester [U.S.A.] Neville Tuli & Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive, Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Contemporary Indian Art . Madras: Vicha Fine Arts 1969. (p.25) Parimoo, Ratan. Studies in Modern India Art – A Collection of Essays . New Delhi: Kanak Publications 1975. (pp.55–7) Chatterjee, Ram (Ed.). Indian Painting Today 1981 . Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1981. (pp.26–8) Bickelmann, Ursula & Nissim Ezekiel (Eds.). Artists Today: East-West Visual Arts Encounter . Bombay: Marg 1987. (pp.53–6) Lalit Kala Akademi. Award Winners National Exhibition of Art 1955-1990 . New Delhi:1990. [Editor: Amit Mukhopadhyay] (pp.16, 46 & 86) Santosh G.R. To My Guru . 1978. [Booklet] Fukuoka, Masanori (Ed.). Contemporary Indian Art – Glenberra Art Museum Collection. Jihoji Hemeji, Japan: Glenberra Japan Co. Ltd. 1993. (pp.76–7) Prayag Shukla (Ed.). Drawing ’94. Delhi: Gallery Espace 1994. [Text includes Notes by R. Modi, P. Shukla, K.G. Subramanyan, S. Datta, B. Khakhar, G.m. Sheikh, Jyotindra Jain & Nilima Sheikh] (pp.36 & 101) Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. (p.211) Chawla, Rupika. Surface and Depth: Indian Artists at Work . New Delhi: Viking 1995. (pp.228-31) Sadwelkar, Baburao. Contemporary Indian Painters 1996 Associated with Jehangir Art Gallery . Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1996. (pp.17 & 138) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams, NY 1998.] (pp.64–5, 134, 208, 211, 213, 227–8, 250, 287 & 372–3) Sheikh, Gulam m. (Ed.). Contemporary Art in Baroda. New Delhi: Tulika 1997. [Research & Documentation: Belinder Dhanoa. Contributors: N. Sheikh, A. Sinha & A. Rajadhyaksha] (pp.75–7, 80 & 268–9) Vadehra Art Gallery. Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence . New Delhi: 1997. [Essays by Y. Dalmia, E. Datta, C. Sambrani, M. Jakimowicz-Karle & S. Datta.] (pp.76 & 256–7) Rm. Palaniappan. Major Trends in Indian Art . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1997. (pp.163 & 272) Khanna, Balraj & Aziz Kurtha. Art Of Modern India . London: Thames and Hudson 1998. (pp.25, 37, 90 & 138) Nicholson, Jehangir. A Collector’s Eye: The Jehangir Nicholson Collection – Selected Works. Mumbai 1998. [Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the NGMA, Mumbai.] (pp.76 & 95) Kapur, Geeta. When Was Modernism . New Delhi: Tulika 2000. (p.307) Mitter, Partha. Indian Art . Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001. (p.211) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives . New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (pp.162 & 227) Sinha, Gayatri (Ed.). Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essay by Shivaji K. Panikkar] (p.119)