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

183 Education Studied under the tutelage of D.D. Deolalikar in Indore 1933 B.A., Holkar College, Agra University, Agra 1929-34 Diploma in Painting, State School of Art, Indore (affiliated to Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay) 1947-8 Graphic Arts, Students’ League, New York Ceramics, YWCA, New York Study tour of the U.S, sponsored by Federation of American Artists, Philadelphia 1948 Print Making, Students’ League, New York Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1938 Set up B. Datta Art Gallery, Srinagar 1939-41 Conducted Art Clasess, Bombay (S.B. Palsikar and K.S. Kulkarni were his students) 1946 Guest Artist, Santiniketan President, Art Society of India, Bombay 1950-9 The first Reader and Head of Department of Painting, Fine Arts Faculty, M.S. University, Baroda 1952 Member, Govt. of India’s first Cultural Delegation to China 1956 Formed Baroda Group of Artists, with staff and students at M. S. University, Baroda 1959-66 Dean, Fine Arts Faculty, M. S. University, Baroda 1962-72 Vice Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1968 Visited Eastern Europe as a member of the Cultural Exchange Programme, Government of India 1972-8 Vice President and President, Art Society of India, Bombay Member, Art Advisory Committee, Govt. of Maharashtra 1978 Visiting Professor, Khairagarh University, Madhya Pradesh Select Solo Exhibitions 1943 Bombay (FS) 1947-8 Travelling Exhibition, Windermere Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 1950 Bombay 1957 Baroda 1960 Abstract Works, Baroda 1962 Baroda 1963 Bombay 1968 Bombay 1969 Travelling Exhibition, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland 1970 Bombay 1972 Bombay 1974 Retrospective , Organised by Lalit Kala Akademi on the occasion of conferment of Fellowship, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (5–10 October) 1976 Bombay 1977 Bombay 1979 Bombay 1980 Bhopal 1981 Bombay 1983 Bombay 1985 ‘Bendre 1985’, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay (3–9 December) NARAYAN SHRIDHAR BENDRE b .21 August 1910 Indore, Madhya Pradesh d .18 February 1992 1992 ‘In memory of N. S. Bendre’, Individuals Cultural Centre, Jammu (28 November–1 December) ‘Drawings and Paintings’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (21 February–15 March) 2000 ‘Sketches’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (13–19 December) Select Awards and Honours 1934 Vagabond , Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society 1935 Street Attraction , Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1936 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1941 Landscapes of Benares , Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society 1943 Trophy, Art Society of India, Bombay 1945 Quit India , Patel Trophy, Art Society of India, Bombay 1954 Nominated Eminent Artist, General Council and Executive Board, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1955 The Thorn , National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1969 Padmashree, Government of India 1971 Chairman, International Jury, IInd Triennale Exhibition, New Delhi 1974 Conferred Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1982 Aban-Gagan Award, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan 1983 D. Litt, Indira Kala Sangeet University, Khairagarh, Madhya Pradesh 1984 Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh 1992 Padma Bhushan, Government of India Select Collections ❖ Art Society of India, Mumbai ❖ B M Ghia Family Collection ❖ Bharat Kathiawada Family Collection ❖ Bimal Poddar Family Collection ❖ H.K. Kejriwal Collection ❖ Jehangir Nicholson Estate, Mumbai ❖ Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore ❖ Kiran Kulkarni, Mumbai ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, (USA) ❖ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai ❖ Tata Sons, Mumbai ❖ Usha Mirchandani, Mumbai