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

187 Education 1903-5 Studied Commerce at Presidency College, Calcutta 1905-10 Government Art College, Calcutta (contemporaries were Kshitendranath Mazumdar, Venkatappa, Suren Dey, Sailen Ganguly and Samarendranath Gupta, under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore) Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1909-10 Joined Asit Kumar Haldar, Samarendranath Gupta and Venkatappa to copy the frescoes of the Ajanta Caves, under the patronage of Lady Herringham 1909 Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Book of Poems Chayanika 1910-14 Worked With Abanindranath Tagore at Jorasanko (Calcutta), Receiving a Monthly Stipend of INR 60 Illustrated a Book of Hindu and Buddhist Myth and Legends Co-Written By Ananda Coomaraswamy And Sister Nivedita Taught Art At The Nivedita Girls School, Calcutta 1916 Founder-Member (with Rabindranath Tagore) of Vichitra Sabha, Calcutta Learned Japanese Ink Painting Techniques from Arai Kempo, a visiting artist, at Jorasanko, Calcutta 1916-7 Executed Murals at the residence of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and at Basu Vigana Mandir, Calcutta 1917 Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitan 1918-9 Taught intermittently at Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta and Viswa Bharati Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize winning Geetanjali 1921 Copied the Frescoes at Bagh Caves 1923-51 Head of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1924 Travelled to Burma, Malaysia, China and Japan with Rabindranath Tagore 1931 Illustrated the popular Bengali text book for children Sahaj Path 1936 Delivered a New Education Fellowship Lecture on ‘The Place of Art in Education’, organised during the Bengal Education Week in Calcutta 1937 Decorated the stalls of the Indian National Congress at Faizpur Chhadar Chhabi, a book containing selected poems by Rabindranath Tagore and drawings by Nandalal Bose was published 1938 Decorated the Stalls of the Indian National Congress at Haripura (later came to be known as the Haripura Posters) Select Solo Exhibitions 1953 Retrospective, Bombay 1954 Retrospective, Calcutta 1982 Centenary Retrospective, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi 1988 Nandala Bose: Haripura panels. For the commemoration of the 40 th Anniversary of Indi’a Independence and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenry – 1987–89, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi 1990 Kala Yatra 1991 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (5–15 February) 1996 Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta 1998 Selected Drawings of 1940s by Nandalal Bose, Art Konsult, New Delhi (10–25 July) NANDALAL BOSE b. 3 December 1882 Kharagpur, West Bengal d. 16 April 1966 Calcutta, West Bengal Select Awards and Honours 1908 Sati Mounting the Pyre and Satir Dehatyag, cash prize of INR 500, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta (First Exhibition) 1950 Honourable Doctorate of Letters, Benaras Hindu University 1952 Desikottama Award, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan 1953 Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize, Bombay 1954 Padma Vibhushan, Government of India 1956 Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1957 Honourable Doctorate of Letters, Calcutta University 1958 Silver Jubilee Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1963 Honourable Doctorate of Letters, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta 1965 Tagore Birth Centenary Medal, Asiatic Society, Bombay Designated `National Art Treasure` by the Govt. of India Select Collections ❖ Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata ❖ B. K. Birla Family Collection, Kolkata ❖ Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi ❖ Birla Museum, Pilani ❖ Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Indian Museum, Kolkata ❖ Kala Bhavan and Rabindra Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan ❖ Nandan Museum, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata ❖ University of Sussex (U.K.) ❖ Victoria and Albert Museum, London (U.K.)