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

235 Select Biographies Bimal Dasgupta b. 28 December 1917 Behrampur, West Bengal d. 1995 Biren De b.8 October 1926 Faridpur, present-day Bangladesh Education 1937-43 Diploma in Painting, Govt., College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1955 AIFACS, New Delhi 1956 Delhi Silip Chakra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1957 Artistry House, Calcutta 1958 Travel Indian Art Ex Moscow, Germany and Poland 1961 Marshal Kowaska Gallery, Poland 1961 Pargaman Museum, Berlin 1966 Chicago 1974,70,72,77,83 Dhoomimal, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours 1948,56 AIFACS, New Delhi 1952 Mysore Art Exhibition, Mysore 1954 Hyderabad Art Exhibition, Hyderabad 1954 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1956 LKA, New Delhi 1958 Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1961-62 Govt. Scholarship to travel around Europe 1972 Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi Select Collections Art Heritage, New Delhi I BAAC, Kolkata I Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh I Delhi Art Gallery, New I Hydrabad Museum, Hyderabad I LKA, New Delhi I Madras Museum, Chennai I NGMA, New DelhiI Education 1944-9 Diploma (Fine Arts), Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1959-60 Fulbright Scholarship, USA Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Darjeeling, West Bengal 1952,53,54,55,56,57,63 AIFACS, New Delhi 1952 Freemason’s Hall, New Delhi (18-22 January) 1956 AIFACS, New Delhi (till 1 November) 1961,65 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1961 Kunika Centre for Contemporary Arts, New Delhi 1963 Fine Arts Gallery, New Delhi (Till 21 December) 1967 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (15-30 November) 1971 Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1973 Gallery Chemould, Bombay (5-21 February) 1974 Gallery Chemould, Bombay (6-21 September); Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1975 Hempsted Public Library, New York, USA; Atelier-Galerie Irmgard Sen Gupta, Hamburg, West Germany 1977 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi (Till 21 October) 1990 Galerie 88, Calcutta (24 January-4 February) 1991 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi (6-24 September) 1999 The Window, Mumbai (4-16 February) Select Awards and Honours 1958 Apparition, National Award, LKA, New Delhi 1959-60 Fulbright Scholarship, USA 1964 Dying Ogre, National Award, LKA, New Delhi Select Collections Berlin State Museum, Germany I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I Ford Foundation, New Delhi I Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi I Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, New Delhi I Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Srinagar I LKA, New Delhi I Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi I Museum of Art, Bhopal I Museum of Art, Chandigarh I Museum of Contemporary Indian Art, Japan I Museum of Indian Art, Berlin I Museum of Modern Art, New York I National Gallery, Prague I National Gallery of Czechoslovakia, Prague I NGMA, New Delhi I Peabody Essex Museum, USA I Punjab Museum, Chandigarh I University of Delhi, New Delhi I