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

240 Select Biographies Asit Kumar Haldar b.10 September1890 Calcutta, West Bengal d.14 February1964 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Ganesh Haloi b.1 July 1936 Jamalpur, present-day Bangladesh Education 1906-10 Govt. School of Art, Calcutta 1923 Study tour of England, France and Italy Select Solo Exhibitions 1908 Inaugural Exhibition, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1909,10 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1911 Allahabad, United Provinces, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, England (organised by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta, for George V’s Coronation) 1914 22nd Exhibition of Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France; the exhibition travelled to Belgium and Holland and Imperial Institute, England. 1924 Travelling Exhibition, USA (organised by American Federation of Art & the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta) 1928 Athenee Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (organised by James Cousins) 1990 Exhibition of the Works of Asit Kumar Haldar (Birth Centenary Year Celebrations), 1991 LKA, New Delhi 1992 Sefalika Art Gallery, Hooghly, West Bengal Select Awards and Honours 1934 First Indian to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art, London Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I Allahabad Museum, Allahabad I Boston Museum, Boston (USA) I Chitralayam, Trivandrum I Delhi Art Galley, New Delhi I Indian Museum, Kolkata I Lahore Museum, Lahore (Pakistan) I LKA, New Delhi I National Art Gallery, Moscow (Russia) I NGMA, Mumbai I P.N. Tagore Collection, Santiniketan I Riga Museum, Latvia I Rothenstein Museum, London I S.V. Ramaswamy Mudaliar Collection, Chennai I Victoria and Albert Museum, London I Education 1952-56 B.A. (Fine Arts), Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Artistry House, Calcutta 1967 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (1-21 November) 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (2-15 December) 1992 Conflict 1992, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (23 February-1 March) 1993 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (9-17 April);JAG, Bombay (6-12 May) 1995 CIMA, Kolkata (15-24 December) 1996 ABC Art Gallery, Varanasi (24-30 December); Gallery Espace, New Delhi;Gallery Lakereen, Mumbai 1997 Gallery Espace, New Delhi (30 January-14 February) 1998 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (17-27 March) 1999 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (5-19 December) 2000 Lakereen Art Gallery, Mumbai (2-20 April) 2002 Societé Asiatique of Multiple Art & Artists, Gurgaon; Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 2006 Akar Prakar, Kolkata (22 May-6 June) Select Awards and Honours 1953-55 Silver Medals, Calcutta University Institute, Calcutta 1955 Cash prize from Latham Foundation, USA 1956 Late R.N. Chakravarty Memorial Gold Medal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta 1955-57,63-64,66,70 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1961 Award, Ministry of Health, Government of India 1970 Rabindra Bharati Award, Calcutta 1991 Shiromani Purashkar, Government of India 1996 Award by Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children, New Delhi for Frogs and A Snake Two documentary films were made on Ganesh Haloi by Samir Dutta for Doordarshan and by Prasanta Daw, commissioned by the Government of West Bengal for its State Archives. Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I Agartala Municipality Town Hall, Tripura I BAAC, Kolkata I Bharat Bhavan,Bhopal I Hindustan Steel Coal India I Indian Tube Manufacturing I Corporation, Jamshedpur I LKA, New Delhi I Nair Foundation, Cochin I NGMA, New Delhi I Paribarik Bhavan, Kolkata I Port Trust Authority, Calcutta I Shipping Corporation o India, Kolkata I Singapore Museum, Singapore I