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

241 Select Biographies M F Husain b.17 September 1915 Pandharpur, Maharashtra Education Self-taught artist. Attended the Indore Art College briefly Select Solo Exhibitions 1950 BAS Salon, Bombay 1956 Gallery Palette, Zürich; Gallery Mannes, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1960 Gallery Palse, Rome (Italy); Kunst Kabinet, Frankfurt, West Germany 1961 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta Chemould Gallery, Bombay Tokyo (Japan) and Gallery Palse, Rome, Italy 1962 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta; Bombay and New Delhi 1964 Dhoomi Mal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1965 Gallery Chemould, Bombay, Calcutta & New Delhi; Gallery Wasity, Baghdad (Iraq); Kabul (Afghanistan) 1966 Oberoi Hotel, Bombay and New Delhi 1967 New York (USA); Poland and Czechoslovakia 1968 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Six Days of Making: Movements and Moods in Paintings, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1969 21 Years of Painting, JAG, Bombay 1971 Ashoka Hotel Gallery, New Delhi 1972,83 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1973 BAAC, Calcutta; Espace Cardin, Paris, France 1974 Commonwealth Art Centre, London, UK; Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, USSR Paintings by Husain, Worcester Art Museum, USA 1975 Maqbool Fida Husain, Sarala Art Centre, Madras (2-14 February) 1978 Sufi Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Ragmala Paintings, Centaur Hotel Lawns, Bombay Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi Retrospective, LKA, New Delhi 1979 The Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1980 Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta 1981 Les Otages - Mere Theresa, Galerie Jourdan, Montreal, Canada Culture of the Streets, Art Heritage, New Delhi 1982 Culture of the Streets, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore (1-29 November) 1988 Hunter Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA (21 August-2 October) 1990 Theatre of the Absurd, New Delhi 1991 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi (3-8 April) 1992 Six Days of Live Painting at Tata Centre, Calcutta 1993 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; NGMA, New Delhi (9-30 January) 1994 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1995 Art Today, New Delhi; Surya Gallery, Hyderabad (3-28 October); Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (24 December) 1996 Taj Mahal, Bombay (10 October) 1998 The Window, Mumbai (26 November-8 December); CIMA, Calcutta 2002 Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (11-20 July); Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (19-31 October); Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda (15-16 February) 2003 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (6-31 January); Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (3-31 May); 2004 NGMA, New Delhi (21 April-15 May) 2005 Collector’s Paradise Gallery, Mumbai 2007 Peabody Essex Museum (USA, Massachusetts) 4 November 2006 - 3 June) Select Awards and Honours 1947 The Potters, BAS, Bombay 1955 Zameen, Awarded the First Prize at the National Exhibition of Art Padmashree, Govt. of India 1959 International Biennale Award, Tokyo 1966 Padama Shree, Govt. of India 1967 Golden Bear for his Film through the Eyes of a Painter 1968 National Award for the Best Experimental Film, Through the Eyes of a Painter 1973 Padma Bhushan, Govt. of India 1989 Padma Vibhushan, Govt. of India 1997 Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar Award for Life-Time Achievement 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, LKA, New Delhi (9 August) 2007 Raja Ravi Varma award, Government of Kerala Honorary Doctorates, Banaras Hindu University, Banaras; Jamia Islamia, New Delhi; Mysore University, Mysore. Select Collections Badrivishal Pittie, Hyderabad I Camlin House, Mumbai I Chemould Gallery, Mumbai I Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Boston, USA I Collection, Mumbai I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I Ebrahim Alkazi and Art Heritage, New Delhi I Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai I Kali Pundole Family I Kanwaldeep and Devinder Sawhney, I LKA, New Delhi I Masanori Fukuoka and Glenbarra Museum, Hemeji, Japan I Mumbai I Late Indira Gandhi Family, New Delhi I National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi I The Osian’s - Archive and Library Collection I Peabody Essex Museum, USA I Roopankar Museum, Bhopal I Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Mumbai I The Countess of Strafford, UK I TIFR, Mumbai I TISCO, Mumbai I Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi