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

186 Education 1949 Unfinished Diploma in Fine Arts, Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Art Lecturer in the Mitra Institution, Calcutta 1951 Founder Member and Secretary, Chitrangshu Group, Calcutta 1960 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1963 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters Select Solo Exhibitions 1954 Calcutta (Also ’59, ’60, ’61 and ’62) 1965 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (21–27 January) Drawings, Berlinz, Munich, West Germany Drawings and Rolling Pictures from India, Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic, Dresden, Halle, Madgeburg 1967 Selection of Works from 1950–1966, organized by Mrs. Mina Biswas, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (3–15 September) Retrospective, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1975 Nikhil Biswas– A Selction of Works, organized by the Nikhil Bisaw Memorial Committee, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (28 February–6 March) 1978 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Retrospective, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (Till 31 December) 1988 Nikhil Biswas – Retrospective, Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta (12–28 February) 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1992 Nikhil Biswas Retrospective, Om, the Gallery of Art, New Delhi (3–18 March) 1993 Nikhil Biswas A Passionate Creator, organized by Alliance Française de Delhi, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi, (15 January–6 February) 1994-5 Nikhil Biswas, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (15 December 1994–1 January 1995) 2001 The Untamed, Drawings and Watercolours, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (23 January–4 February) 2006 Paintings by Nikhil Biswas , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (7–20 August) Select Awards and Honours 1954 Mother at Work , B.M. Birla Gold Medal for Best Work in Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1956 Gold Medal, Most Important Modern Indian Painter, LKA, New Delhi Select Collections ❖ Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata ❖ Ebrahim Alkazi and Art Heritage, New Delhi ❖ H. K. Kejriwal Family Collection, Bangalore ❖ Halle Museum, Dresden (Germany) ❖ Kito and Jane de Boer Collection, Dubai (U.A.E.) ❖ Mukund and Nirja Lath Family Collection, Jaipur ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection NIKHIL BISWAS b .22 April 1930 Calcutta, West Bengal d .10 November 1966 Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1900 Apprenticed to Master Mohammad Abdullah, a commercial artist Select Solo Exhibitions 1923 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1924-75 Nagpur, Patiala, Simla, Pune, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore & Lahore 1976 Karachi Arts Council, Karachi, Pakistan Select Awards and Honours 1923 First Prize, Bombay Art Society, Bombay Select Collections ❖ Allah Bukhsh Academy, Lahore ❖ Dinesh Thacker Family Collection, Mumbai ❖ Karachi Arts Council, Karachi ❖ National Museum of Art, PNCA, Islamabad ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Punjab Council of Arts, Lahore ❖ Shiv and Kiran Nadar Family Collection, New Delhi USTAD ALLAH BUKHSH b. 1895 Wazirabad, Punjab, present-day Pakistan d. 1978