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

268 Select Biographies Gaganendranath Tagore b.1867 Calcutta, West Bengal d.1938 Calcutta, West Bengal Rabindranath Tagore b.7 May, 1861 d.7 August, 1941 Santiniketan Education Self-taught Solo Exhibitions 1923 Berlin & Hamburg, Germany 1967 Gaganendranath’s Centenary Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (18-24 September) 1976 Advoot Lok, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (21-27 June) 1979 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (17-20 March) 1987 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (29 May-7 June) Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata I Bharat Kala Bhavan, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi I Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi I H.K.Kejriwal Collection I Indian Museum, Kolkata IKala Bhavan, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan I Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore I NGMA, New Delhi I Rabindra Bharati Society, Kolkata I The Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K.I Victoria & Albert Museum, London I Education Self-Taught. 1871 Bengal Academy, an Anglo-Indian School. 1878 School of Brighton, Ahmedabad. 1879 University College, England. Select Solo Exhibitions 1930 May-Dec, First Travelling Exhibition - Galerie Pigalle, Paris; City Art Gallery, Birmingham, & India Society, London, UK; Moeller’s Gallery, Berlin, Art Club of Saxony, Dresden & Gallery Caspari, Munich, Germany; Charlottenburg Picture Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Geneva; State Moscow Museum of New Western Art, Moscow; Doll & Richards Gallery & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and 56th Street Galleries, New York, USA 1931 The Newman Galleries, Philadelphia,USA 1934 Congress House, Madras 1938 Calmann Gallery, London 1939 Bangiya Sathiya Parishad, Calcutta 1943 Tagore Society, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai. 1943,45,47,49,51,52,69 Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. 1950 Allahabad University, Allahabad 1953 National Libraray, Calcutta. 1961 Tagore Centenary Exhibition, Calcutta 1961 Indian High Commission, Karachi, Swiss National Library, Switzerland, Colombo Art Gallery, Sri Lanka. 1965 NGMA, New Delhi 1967,72 BAAC, Calcutta 1973 Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Visva-Bharatri University. 1986-87 Manchester: The Third Eye, Glasgow & Cartwright Hall, Bedford;and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Select Awards and Honours 1914 Awarded the Nobel Prize for his literary achievements. 1915 Knighted by King George, but he rejected it. Select Collections Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta I Delhi Art Gallery, New DelhiIH.K. Kejriwal Collection & Karnataka I Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore I Indian Museum, Kolkata I NGMA, New Delhi I Rabindra Bharati Society, Calcutta I Rabindra Bharati University Museum, Kolkata I Rabindra-Sandana (Tagore Museum), Santiniketan I Tagore Museum, from the Late Rani Chanda Collection I Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London I Victoria and Albert Museum, London I