Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | January 2008

223 Select Biographies Education No formal training in art. 1940-41 Encouraged to Take Up Painting As a Profession by Head of Art Department, Times of India, Prof. Walter Langhammer And Art Critic, Times of India, Rudy Von Leyden Certificate Foundation Course, Ketkar Institute of Art, Girgaum, Bombay Select Solo Exhibitions 1942,49,50 BAS, Bombay 1954,60,73 JAG, Bombay 1961 Hyderabad 1962 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1963 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay; Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1964 Jashn-e-Ara, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay 1966 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1978 Artists’ Aid Centre, Bombay Select Awards and Honours 1939 BAS, Bombay 1944 The Great Mahratta Battle, Governor’s Prize, BAS Annual Exhibition, Bombay 1951-52 Two Jugs, Gold Medal, BAS, Bombay 1961 Sponsored by LKA, New Delhi to Visit France as a Guest of the Govt. of France Invited by the Bulgarian Artists Association to Visit Bulgaria as an Exchange Artist Select Collections Air India, Mumbai I Atomic Energy Commission, Bombay I Baroda Museum, Baroda I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi IFaculty Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajiroa University, Baroda I Fred Harvey Museum, Bangalore I Globe Theatres Ltd. IHarvard University I Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad I Indian Airlines Corporation I Kali Pundole Family Collection I Kekoo and Korshed Gandhy Family Collection I Late Rudi von Leyden Family Collection I Late Sir Cowasji Jehangir Family Collection I NGMA, New Delhi I LKA, New Delhi I Ruxana & Zenab Pathan Collection I Jerry Rao, Bangalore I State Transport, Bombay I TIFR, Mumbai IThe Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Museum I The High Court Bar Room, Bombay I The Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay I Trivandrum Museum I Yale University, USA I Education 1939 Studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1965 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 2003 Galerie 88, Kolkata (30 March-5 April) Select Awards and Honours 1934 Government School of Arts Exhibition, Calcutta 1935 Calcutta University; Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1939,46 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1940 AIFACS, New Delhi 1952 All India Fine Arts Exhibition, Punjab 1958 All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras; All India Exhibition, Patna Govt., of West Bengal; LKA, New Delhi;Philatelist Society, Govt. of India 1959 President of the Soviet Union, Kliment Voroshilov,by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation on behalf of the citizens of West Bengal; Akhil Bharatiya Kalidasa Samarah; Govt. of Madhya Pradesh;Patna President’s Gold and Silver Plaque; All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras 1960 Philatelist Society Award, Govt. of India 1961 Viswa Bharati University 1962 BAS, Bombay 1966 Akhil Bharatiya Kalidasa Samarah, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh; Akhil Bharatiya Kalidas Samaraha, New Delhi 1968 All India Kalidas Exhibition, Calcutta Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I BAAC, Kolkata I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I LKA, New Delhi I Madhya Pradesh Govt. Art Gallery, Bhopal I Mahajatti Sadan, Kolkata I Moscow Museum, Moscow I Mr. Avijit Mazumdar I Rabindra Bharati University, Jorasanko, Kolkata I Royal Family, Jammu and Kashmir I Vichitra Bhavan, Tagore Museum, Santiniketan Krishna Hawalaji Ara b. 16 April 1913 Bolarum, near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh d. 30 June 1985 Bombay, Maharashtra Radha Charan Bagchi b. 29 November 1910 Potazia Village, Pabna District, present-day Bangladesh d. 19 October 1977 Calcutta