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

226 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III BIRESWAR SEN b. 1897, Calcutta, West Bengal / d. 1974, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Education Presidency College, Calcutta University Indian School of Oriental Art, Calcutta, under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore. Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1923-6 Lecturer, English Literature, Bihar National College, Patna 1926 Head Master, Government School of Arts & Craft, Lucknow 1945 Superintending Craftsman, Government School of Arts & Craft, Lucknow (and then Vice Principal when the degree course was introduced) On retirement was appointed Director, Design Centre, by the Uttar Pradesh Government Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai [U.A.E] Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting. Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp. 23–4) Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992. (p.308) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Osian’s/Tuli. India: The Passionate- Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L98) Karin Zitzewitz. The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art . Mumbai: Chemould Publications and Arts 2003. (p.56) Journals & Essays ‘G.R. Santosh’ in Marg Vol. 8 No. 2 1955 . New Delhi. (pp.108–9) Krishnan S.A. ‘Image and Inspiration: Studio Interviews’ in LKC 12 1971 . New Delhi. (pp.18–20) Paniker, K.C.S. ‘Contemporary Painters And Metaphysical Elements In The Art Of The Past’ in LKC 12 & 13 1971 . New Delhi. (p.11) ‘G.R.Santosh: Sublimation of Desire’ in LKC 12 & 13 1971 . New Delhi. (p.18) Farooqi, Anis. ‘The Role Of The Script In Contemporary Indian Painting’ in LKC 32 April 1985 . New Delhi. (p.11) Krishnan, S.A. ‘Santosh – A Painter Of Kashmir’ in LKC 34 January 1987 . New Delhi. (pp.73–5) ‘G.R.Santosh’ in Marg Vol.38 No.4 1987 . New Delhi. (pp.53–6) Malik, Keshav. ‘As a Critic Looks at it’ in LKC 37 March 1991 . New Delhi. (p.40) Parimoo, Ratan. ‘Revivalism, Indigenous Factors or Modern Indian Art Reconsidered in the Context of Post Modernism’ in LKC 38 March 1993 . New Delhi. (p.17) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Kumar Gallery. G.R. Santosh. New Delhi 1967. [Ex. 10-25 February] Festival of India Committee, U.K. Contemporary Indian Art. Bombay 1982. [Ex. Bombay Royal Academy of Arts, The Gesture, and Motif 18 September–5 October Stories, & Situations 9–31 October 1982] (pp.32–3) Bombay Art Society. Story of a Hundred Years: The Bombay Art Society 1888-1988. Bombay 1989. [Compiler: Baburao Sadwelkar] (p.91) NGMA. Catalogue of Collections, Vol.1. New Delhi 1989. (pp.175, 244, 251, 258, 271–2 & 281) Galerie 88. Gulam Rasool Santosh. Calcutta 1991. [Ex. 17–27 July] L.T.G. Art Gallery. G.R.Santosh. New Delhi 1991 [Ex. 15 November–4 December] Sotheby’s. Contemporary Indian Paintings . New York 1995. (L37, L38, L39, L40, L 41, L42, L44, L45 & L46) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic: A Festival of Indian Contemporary Painting. 1997. [Ex. 1 March–19 April] (p.12) HEART/Tuli. The Intuitive-Logic II . Bombay 1997. (L101) Sotheby’s. The Indian Sale . London 1997. (L320) Christie’s. Indian Contemporary Art . London 1997. (L101) Sotheby’s. Modern & Indian Contemporary Paintings . New York 1997. (L82 & L84) Dhoomimal Art Centre. Gulam Rasool Santosh. New Delhi 1998. [Ex. 10–24 March. Text: Shantiveer Kaul] Sotheby’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art . New York 1998. (L338) Sotheby’s. Indian Miniatures The Travel Sale – India and the Far East Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings . London 1999. (L273) Sotheby’s. Contemporary Indian Paintings . New York 2000. (L181) L.T.G. Art Gallery. G.R. Santosh. New Delhi 2001. [Ex. 2–22 February. Text: Hilal Ahmed & Shabir Santosh] Osian’s/Tuli. India: the Passionate Detachment . Mumbai 2001. (L173) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila . Mumbai 2001. (L118a) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings , Mumbai 2002. (L89, L90 & L91) Bowrings. Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L106) Osian’s/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L222) Newspaper & Magazine Articles ‘Paintings Of Santosh’ in The Times Of India 13 February 1969, Bombay. ‘Excellent Group Show At Pundole Gallery’ in The Indian Express 5 May 1971, Bombay. Ella Datta. ‘Brush with Bengal Painting’ in Business Standard 15 February 1987, Calcutta. Meera Warrier. ‘G.R.Santosh: Inner Space’ in Business Standard 13 July 1996, Calcutta. Suneet Chopra. ‘Levels Of Abstraction’ in Hindustan Times 21 March 1998, New Delhi. Suneet Chopra. ‘Good Art Drifts Away From Small Investors’ in The Financial Express 11 February 2001, New Delhi. Gayatri Sinha. ‘A Remarkable Artist, a Remarkable Show’ in The Hindu 9 February 2001, Chennai. Poonam Goel. ‘Remembering Santosh, the Leonardo Da Vinci of Kashmir’ in Hindustan Times 3 February 2002, New Delhi. Hetal Sheth. ‘Team Spirit’ in The Times Of India 8 August 2002, Mumbai.