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

264 Select Biographies S G Thakur Singh b.15 September 1894 Verka, Amritsar d. 2 February 1976 Education Self taught Artist 1910 VDJ Technical Institute, Lahore Select Solo Exhibition 1926 Punjab Fine Arts Society, Calcutta 1959 demy of Fine Arts, Moscow, USSR Select Awards and Honours 1917 Exhibition held at Simla 1924 British Empire Exhibition, London 1953 President of India’s Gold Medal, Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar; Gold Medal, Calcutta Art Society 1952 Member of the Punjab Legislative Council 1956 Member of General Council LKA Satish Sinha b.1893 Calcutta, West Bengal d.1965 Education 1912 – 15 Studied at Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Select Award and Honours Awarded Guru Prasanna Scholship for higher studies. Active Participant in Nationalist Movement, in associations with Atul Ghose, Bidhan Chandra Roy and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Member, Rasachakra. Associated with AFA, Art in Industry and Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta. 1962 Received an “Ivory Ashoka Stambha” and a shawl during his felicitation program by Indian National Congress, on the occasion of 15th Anniversary of Indian Independence. Joint Secretary, LKA, New Delhi. Select Collections Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai I Jehangir Nicholson collections, Mumbai. I National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne I Neville Tuli and Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art Archive, Mumbai. I Nitin Bhayana, New Delhi I New College, Oxford I NGMA, New Delhi. Baroda Museum I Nuffield College, Oxford I Tata Gallery, London I The Haifa Museum, Israel I Vadodara. Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I Wakefield Gallery, London.