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

257 Select Biographies Ramkumar b.1924 Simla, Himachal Pradesh Education 1945 M.A. in Economics, St. Stephens College, Delhi University, New Delhi 1944-45 Enrolled at Sarada Ukil Art School (Evening class), New Delhi 1948 Silpi Chakra Group, New Delhi 1949-50 Studied Painting, Atelier of Andre Lhote, Paris, France 1950-51 Studied Painting, Atelier Fernand Leger, Paris, France Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Young Men’s Christian Association, Simla Town Hall, New Delhi 1950 Gallery Barbizon, Paris, France 1953 Alliance Française, Bombay 1954 New Delhi 1955 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1956 Colombo, Sri Lanka 1957 Alliance Française, New Delhi 1958 Krakow and Warsaw, Poland 1959,73 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1961 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (February) 1963,65 Kunika Art Centre, New Delhi 1964 Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1966 Exhibition of Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1968 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1969 Gallery Chemould, Bombay (10-25 February) 1971 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1974 Gallery Chemould, Bombay (31October-19 November) 1976 Gallery Pundole, Bombay (November) 1977 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi 1979 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition-Paintings by Ram Kumar, Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi (5-20 March) 1980 Art Heritage, New Delhi; BAAC, Calcutta 1982 Sarala Art Centre, Madras; Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (10-22 January) 1984 Bombay and Hungary 1985 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1986 Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay; JAG, Bombay 1988 Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française, New Delhi (17-26 October); Kala Yatra and Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore (2 January) 1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay; Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi 1991 Rajmata Sudarshna Kumari Kala Deergha, Bikaner (13-20 October); Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (20 February-5 March) 1992 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (15 January-15 February); Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (11-30 May) 1993 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; NGMA, New Delhi (20 November-12 December); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 8-27 February) 1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; JAG, Bombay (15-22 February) Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1996 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (16 January-3 February); A.R.K.S.Gallery, London, UK (5-28 October); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (24 September-29 October) 1997 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad 1998 Vadehra Gallery, New York, USA (6-30 June); Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (3-30 May) 2000 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (6-26 January) 2001 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (17 February-12 March) 2002 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (19-24 May), Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi (2 June), Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco (21-25 June), The Indocenter, New York, USA (11-30 July) 2003 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (13 November-16 December) 2005 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (6-28 May) Select Awards and Honours 1956,58 National Award, LKA, New Delhi 1959 Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 1970 J D Rockefeller III Fellowship, New York, USA 1972 Padmashree, Govt. of India; Prem Chand Puraskar, Award for Meri Priya Kahaniyan, a collection of short stories in Hindi, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh 1986 Kalidas Samman, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh 2003 Officer Arts et Lettres, Govt. of France 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, LKA, New Delhi (9 August) Select Collections Bodhi Art Gallery I Deutsche Bank, Mumbai I Ebrahim Alkazi Collection, New Delhi I Gallery Chemould, Mumbai I Grey Foundation, Washington D.C., USA I Kumar Gallery, New Delhi I LKA, New Delhi I Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi I National Museum, Berlin, Germany Punjab Museum, Chandigarh I National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic I NGMA, New Delhi I TIFR, Mumbai I