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

181 Education No formal training in painting 1940-1 Encouraged to take up painting as a profession by Head of Art Department, Times of India, Prof. Walter Langhammer and Art Critic, Rudy Von Leyden Certificate in Foundation Course, Ketkar Institute of Art, Girgaum, Bombay Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1930 Participated in the Salt Satyagraha and served a spell in jail as a result 1947 Founder Member, Progressive Artists’ Group, Bombay 1951-2 Member, Managing Committee, Bombay Art Society Member, Selection and Judging Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1952 Founder Secretary, Artist’s Centre Associated with Bombay Art Society and with the Art Society of India Select Solo Exhibitions 1942 Bombay Art Society Salon, Rampart Row (now Artists’ Centre), Bombay 1944 Chetna, Bombay, organized by Kekoo Gandhi 1947 Matunga, Mumbai 1948 Two shows held in Surat and Rander 1950 Still Life, Bombay 1954,60 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1961 One man show, Hyderabad 1962 Nude Show, Taj Gallery, Bombay 1963 Black Nude Series, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1963 Exhibition of paintings, exclusively in aid of the National Defense Fund, Roop Gallery 1963 Poem on Canvas, Taj Gallery and Byculla, Bombay 1964 Jasnne-e-Ara, Prince of Wales Museum, Key Gallery, Bombay 1966 Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1973 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (April) 1978 Artists’ Centre, Bombay Select Awards and Honours 1939 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1944 The Great Mahratta Battle ,Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society’s Annual Exhibition, Bombay 1952 Two Jugs , Gold medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1961 Sponsored by Lalit Kala Akademi, visited France as Guest of French Government and Visited Bulgaria as an Exchange Artist on Invitation of the Bulgarian Artists Association KRISHNA HAWALAJI ARA b. 16 April 1913 Bolarum, Andhra Pradesh d. 30 June 1985 Bombay, Maharashtra Select Collections ❖ Air India, Mumbai ❖ Atomic Energy Commission, Mumbai ❖ Baroda Museum, Baroda ❖ Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum (previously known as the Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai ❖ Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Faculty Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajiroa University, Baroda ❖ Fred Harvey Museum, Bangalore ❖ Globe Theatres Ltd. ❖ Harvard University, Boston (USA) ❖ Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad ❖ Indian Airlines Corporation ❖ Jerry Rao Collection, Bangalore ❖ Kali Pundole Family Collection, Mumbai ❖ Kekoo and Korshed Gandhy Family Collection, Mumbai ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ❖ Late Rudi von Leyden Family Collection, Mumbai ❖ Late Sir Cowasji Jehangir Family Collection, Mumbai ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Royal Indian Society, London (U.K.) ❖ State Transport, Mumbai ❖ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai ❖ Andhra Pradesh State Museum, Hyderabad ❖ The High Court, Mumbai ❖ Trivandrum Museum, Kerala ❖ UNESCO Museum of Art, Paris (France) ❖ Yale University (USA) ❖ Zenab and Ruxana Pathan Collection, Mumbai