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

240 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III SARADA CHARAN UKIL b . 1890, Bikrampur, Dacca, (Present-day) Bangladesh / d . 1940, Delhi Education Studied under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore Studied Indian Painting, Government School of Art, Calcutta Teaching & Infrastructure–building Activities 1918 Moved to Northern India and made an initial career in painting oil portraits of wealthy patrons 1920-30 Fine Art Faculty, Modern School, New Delhi 1925 In the silent film ‘The Light of Asia’, played the role of Shuddhodana, the father of Buddha 1926 Founder, Sarada Ukil School of Art 1927 Founder, The Society of Indian Arts and Crafts (Later in 1931 under the leadership of Barada Ukil it became the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society) One of the pioneers of Bengal School of Painting His last great work was a series of paintings of 31 panels on Krishna Legend for Sri Gopalji Temple, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum, (Previously called Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Srichitralayam, Thiruvananthapuram Maharani of Cooch-Behar Late Mr S.V. Ramaswamy Mudaliar, Chennai Select Bibliography Books Venkatachalam G., Contemporary Indian Painters . Bombay: Nalanda Publications. (pp.59–64) Rao, P.R.Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting . Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp.21–22) Archer, W.G., India and Modern Art . London: Allen and Unwin 1959. (pp.38–9) Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992. (pp.273 & 323) Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives . New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001. (p.237) Sinha, Gayatri (Ed.). Indian Art: An Overview . New Delhi: Rupa & Co 2003. [Essay by Santo Datta] (p.63) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Christie’s. Twentieth Century Indian Art . London 1999. (L29) Sotheby’s. Indian Miniatures The Travel Sale – India and the Far East Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings . London 2000. (L146) Sotheby’s. Indian & Southeast Asian Art . New York 2000. (L208) Bowrings. Paintings and Works of Art . New Delhi 2001. (L47) Bowrings. Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings . Mumbai 2002. (L52) Delhi Art Gallery. Poetry and Patriotic Fervour An Exhibition of Indian Art Pre-Independence. New Delhi 2003. Secret Life , Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi Secret Life , Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore Awards & Honours 1989-91 Fellowship for outstanding artists in the field of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture, Government of India Select Collections Central Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Government Museum, Chennai Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Regional Centre, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai Tamilnadu Ovium Nunkalai Kuzhu, Chennai XAL Praxis Foundation, Mumbai Select Bibliography Auction & Exhibition Catalogues Sakshi Gallery. Paintings and Drawings by Vasudha Thozhur . Madras 1987. [Ex. 5 –11 October] Sakshi Gallery. Embarkations . Mumbai 1999. Osians/Tuli. Figurative Non-Figurative Narration . Mumbai 2003. (L188)