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

243 Select Biographies Prokash Karmakar b. 20 October1933 Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1950-57 Worked in Dilip Dasgupta’s Studio 1953 Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1964-65 Worked in Nirode Mazumdar’s Studio 1969-70 French Govt. Scholarship to Study Museums of Art in France Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1953 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1955, 60, 64, 67, 69,74,76,77, 83, 95, 99, 2000 Calcutta 1959 Pavement Show, Calcutta, LKA, New Delhi 1962, 63, 64, 69, 71, 96 AIFACS, New Delhi 1968 Paris, France 1970 LKA, New Delhi, Switzerland, West Germany and UK 1984 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi 1989 After 18 Years Prokash Karmakar Again, Gallery BF/ 14, Calcutta 1991 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1992 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1993 LTG Art Gallery, New Delhi 1997 Sanskriti Gallery, New Delhi (18 September-4 October) 2002 Galerie 88, Kolkata 2005 Art and Deal, New Delhi (2-15 July) Selected Awards and Honours 1957 Certificate of Merit, Annual National Exhibition, New Delhi 1966 LKA, New Delhi 1968 National Award, LKA, New Delhi 1968 Fellowship Government of French,Paris. 1970 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Calcutta 1976 BAAC, Calcutta Special Award, Maha Koshla Kala Parishad, Raipur 1996 AIFACS, New Delhi National Award, LKA, New Delhi 2000 Abanindra Puraskar, Govt. of West Bengal Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I Allahabad Museum, Allahabad I Art Heritage, New Delhi I Ashish Anand and Delhi Art Gallery I BAAC, Kolkata I Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal I Birla Academy of Art and Craft, Kolkata I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad I Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai I Kito and Jane De Boer Collection I LKA, Bangalore I LKA, Lucknow I LKA, New Delhi I Lucknow Art Museum, Lucknow I NGMA, New Delhi I The Osian’s - Archive and Library Collection I Sangita Kathiwada Collection I Tata Centre, Jamshedpur I Tata Institute of Art, Mumbai I George Keyt b.17 April 1901 Kandy, Present-Day Sri Lanka d.1992 Amunugama, Kandy, Sri Lanka Education Self-Taught Thereafter Joined Trinity College, Kandy, Ceylon Studied Buddhism at the Malvatta Vihara in Kandy, Ceylon Solo Exhibitions 1946 Exhibition in India, Organized by Mulk Raj Anand, Anil De Silva and Others 1953 AIFACS (New Delhi) and Group ’43 (Colombo) in New Delhi 1954 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Art Institute of Rotterdam, Holland 1956 Peradeniya University, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1968 Samudra Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1969 Gallery Chemould, Bombay (11-20 May) and Indian Council for Cultural Relations 1972 Lionel Weldt Memorial Exhibition, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1974 Commonwealth Art Gallery, London, UK 1975 French Embassy (Sri Lanka), Kalagaraya Gallery and French Club of the University of Sri Lanka Select Awards and Honours 1915 Trinity College Art Prize for a Pen and Ink Drawing, Colombo 1950 Declined the Offer of The Order of the British Empire 1968 Hony. D.Litt, University Of Sri Lanka, Paradeniya 1970 Award for Services to the Nation in the Field of Art, Ceylon Society of Art Select Collections Mulk Raj Anand Family I NGMA, New Delhi I The Lionel Wendt I The Osian’s Archive and Library I