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

227 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES PARITOSH SEN b. 18 October 1918, Dacca, (Present day) Bangladesh / d. 1997 Education 1936-40 Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras (Studied under D.P. Roy Choudhury. His contemporaries were Gopal Ghose, Prodosh Dasgupta & K.C.S. Paniker) 1949-54 Andre Lhote’s School, Academie Grand Chaumier, Ecole des Beaux Arts (Mural Painting) and at Ecole des Louvre (History of Painting), Paris Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities 1940 Art Teacher, The Daly College, Indore 1942-3 Founder Member, Calcutta Group 1954-5 Art Teacher, Neterhat Vidyalaya, Bihar 1956-79 Staff Member (Design & Layout), Regional Institute of Printing Technology, Jadavpur, Calcutta 1962-3 Visited France on a French Fellowship Commissioned by the French Government to design Bengali typography based on the script of Rabindranath Tagore 1967 Lecture, ‘Teaching Art’, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (12 March) 1970-1 Visited U.S.A. on a Rockefeller Grant 1981-2 Visiting Professor and Artist- in-Residence, Contemporary Indian Art, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, U.S.A. (Invited by the U.S. Sub-Commission on Culture & Education) 1983-7 Artist-in-Residence, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. (Portfolio of his autobiographical short stories in English, illustrated by him, published by the Institute.) Elected Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1986 Member, General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Member, Executive Council, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan Commissioner, Indian Section of Havana Biennale II, Cuba Solo Exhibitions 1950 Brussels 1962 London 1965 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta (25 November–5 December) 1967 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (16–25 September) 1968 Calcutta 1973 Calcutta Bombay Paintings , Gallery Sanskriti, New Delhi (27 March–10 April) 1989 Self Portraits , The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1990 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay (10–31 October) 1991 Instant Images , The Village Gallery, New Delhi (6–27 December) 1992 Acrylics As Water Colours , The Village Gallery, New Delhi (28 December–18 January) 1998 Works on Paper , Lakeeren, Mumbai (24 January–14 February) 2001 Mini Retrospective Show , Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata (6–18 February) 2002 Retrospective exhibition of paintings , Artworld, Chennai (8–17 April) Retrospective exhibition of paintings , Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai (8–17 April) Awards & Honours 1962 Documentary film on his works made by the West Bengal Government 1969-70 French Fellowship for designing typeface 1970-1 John D Rockefeller III grant 1979 Invited by the Indo-Soviet Friendship Association to exhibit his works in Moscow 1985 Asian Paints Award 1986 Conferred Fellowship, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Invited to speak on ‘Indian Contemporary Painting’ at Loomis Chaffee School by Allan Lundie Wise Lecture Fund, Windsor, USA 1988 ‘One Day in The Life of a Celebrity’, A Documentary on him made by Doordarshan, Calcutta 1989 Abanindra Puraskar for painting, Government of West Bengal 1991 Conferred Hony. Doctor of Literature University of Burdwan, West Bengal 1995 West Bengal State Lalit Kala Prize for Achievement in Art 1996 Kalidas Nag Award 1997 The English Speaking Union Outstanding Citizen Award 1998 Hirachand Dugar Award Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty Smriti Puraskar, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta 1999 Aban-Gagan Puraskar, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan Select Collections Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata British Museum, London [U.K.] Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai Neville Tuli & Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra Art Museum, Hemeji [Japan] Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Punjab University Museum, Chandigarh Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi Sydney Art Museum, Sydney [Australia] TISCO, Mumbai Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp.68–9) Chowdhury, S.P. Paritosh Sen . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1975. Jehangir Art Gallery. Indian Painting Today 1981 . Bombay 1981. (pp.53–5) Fukuoka, Masanori (Ed.). Contemporary Indian Art – Glenberra Art Museum Collection . Jihoji Hemeji, Japan: Glenberra Japan Co. Ltd. 1993. (pp.177–9) Prayag Shukla. Drawing ’ 94 . Delhi 1994. [Text: R. Modi, P. Shukla, K.G. Subramanyan, S. Datta, B. Khakhar, G.m. Sheikh, Jyotindra Jain & Nilima Sheikh.] (pp.69 &103) Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. (pp.199 & 206) Sadwelkar, Baburao. Contemporary Indian Painters 1996 Associated with Jehangir Art Gallery. Bombay: Jehangir Art Gallery 1996. (pp.6–134) Tuli, Neville. The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi: HEART–Mapin 1997. [Inted. Harry Abrams NY 1998] (pp.136, 195, 198, 208–9, 216–7, 270, 376–8 & 390)