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

238 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE b. 1867, Calcutta, West Bengal d . 1938, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Self-taught Teaching & Infrastrucure–building Activities 1907 Founder Member, The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1910 Collection of Indian miniatures (exhibited with the Indian Society for Oriental Art, Calcutta) published by the Society 1912 Illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore’s Jivansmriti 1916-8 Instrumental in gaining Government aid through Lord Carmichael to establish the Bengal Home Industries Association, Calcutta Published Virupa Vajra (Play of Opposites) and Advoot Lok (Realm of the Absurd), two volumes of caricatures Published Nava Hullor (Reform screams), a third volume of caricatures, with Thacker Spinks Published Bhodor Bahadue (Otter the Great), Signet Press, Calcutta – the only literary work in Bengali left behind by the artist Formed the purchase committee of the Government Art Gallery, along with Abanindranath Tagore, Justice Woodroffe, Norman Blount, Rueboson and Muller. Solo Exhibitions 1923 Berlin & Hamburg, Germany 1967 Gaganendranath’s Centenary Exhibition , Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (18–24 September) 1976 Advoot Lok , Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (21–27 June) 1979 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (17–20 March) 1987 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (29 May–7 June) Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Bharat Kala Bhavan, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi Indian Museum, Kolkata Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Neville Tuli & Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive Rabindra Bharati Society, Kolkata The Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London [U.K.] H.K. Kejriwal Collection Select Bibliography Books Venkatachalam G., Contemporary Indian Painters . Bombay: Nalanda Publications. (pp.23–8) Chakravorty, Ramendranath (Ed.). Abanindranath Tagore His Early Work. Calcutta: Indian Museum 1951. Rao, P.R.Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (p.15–16) Archer, W.G., India and Modern Art. London: Allen and Unwin 1959. (p.43) Parimoo, Ratan. T he Pictorial World of Gaganendranath Tagore . New Delhi: NGMA 1996. Sen, Pulinbihari (Ed.). Gaganendranath Tagore . Calcutta: Indian Society of Oriental Art 1961. Roy, Kshitis. Gaganendranath Tagore . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1964. Parimoo, Ratan. The Paintings of the Three Tagores – Abanindranath, Gaganendranath, Rabindranath Chronology and Comparative Study . Baroda: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda 1973. (pp. 5,42–59 & 88-110) Moitra, Dwijendra (Ed.). Academy of Fine Arts . The Academy of Fine Arts: Golden Jubilee – A Commemoration 1933-83. Calcutta 1983. (p.7) Mukherji, Mani Shankar (Ed.). The Tagores of Calcutta . Calcutta: RPG Enterprises 1991. (np) Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992. (pp.4, 84, 89, 228, 230, 250, 274–5, 279, 303, 311, 314–16 & 318–19) Bhattacharya, K. Asok. Calcutta Paintings. Calcutta: Department of Information and Cultural Affairs Government of West Bengal 1994. (pp. 82) Delhi Art Gallery. Changing Images. An Exhibition of 20 th Century Indian Art . Mumbai 2001.(Ex.7 –14 August) Bowrings. Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 2001. (L41) Bonhams. Modern & Contemporary Paintings from the Indian Sub-Continent . London 2001. (L12 & L13) Bowrings. Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L53) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Epic: India in the Making 1757-1950 . Mumbai 2002. (L60 & L61) Delhi Art Gallery. Poetry and Patriotic Fervour An Exhibition of Indian Art Pre-Independence New Delhi 2003. Newspaper & Magazine Articles Nandita Choudhruri. ‘The Beauty Of Simplicity’ in The Telegraph 13 January 1991, Calcutta. ‘The First Family Of Art’ in The Illustrated Weekly Of India 30-31 March 1991, Bombay. Manasij Majumder. ‘Superb, yet Simple Compositions’ in The Telegraph 30 January 1991, Calcutta. Prajna Desai.’Abanindranath Tagore’ in Art India July–September 1998.