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

193 Education 1911-3 Mayo School of Art, Lahore 1932-6 Student of Printmaking, London, U.K. Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Head-Instructor, Chromo-lithography, Mayo School of Art, Lahore, Pakistan Select Solo Exhibitions 1920 Punjab Fine Art Society, Lahore 1920s Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1940s Hyderabad Select Awards and Honours 1934 Received the title Khan Bahadur. Designated National Artist of Pakistan. Original Chughtai paintings were gifted to all visiting Heads of State. UNO art correspondent, Jacg-baal-Teshuva, wrote ‘Chughtai’s paintings are the most outstanding among the entire permanent collection of United Nations’ President’s Pride for Performance Award Conferred the title Hilal-e-Imtiaz for service to his country Select Collections ❖ Baroda Museum and Picture Art Gallery, Vadodara ❖ Chughtai Museum Trust, Lahore (Pakistan) ❖ Governors House, of different provinces (Pakistan) ❖ H.K. Kejriwal Collection at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore ❖ Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad ❖ National Art Gallery, Islamabad (Pakistan) ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Peace Palace (Hague) ❖ President’s House (Pakistan) ❖ Prime Minister’s House (Pakistan) ❖ Sri Jayachamarajendra Gallery, Mysore ❖ United Nations, New York (U.S.A.) ❖ Universal Postal Union, Berne (Switzerland) ABDUL REHMAN CHUGHTAI b. 21 September 1894 Lahore, present-day Pakistan d. 17 January 1975 Education 1965-72 College of Art, New Delhi 1989 Fellowship for Advanced Exposure to Exhibition and Graphic Design, Federal Republic of Germany Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1974 Founder Member, Artists Group, Delhi 1974-75 Lecturer, Art Institute, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 1975-77 Visiting Lecturer, College of Art and Women’s Polytechnic, New Delhi 1977 Member, Gallery 26/Artists Forum, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1978 Works on Paper, Dhoomi Mal Gallery, New Delhi 1988 Dhoomi Mal Gallery, New Delhi Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1990 Sakshi Gallery, Madras 1991 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1993 Paintings, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay (10–20 September) 1994 Works on Paper from 1972–1994, Eicher Gallery, New Delhi (10 December – 07 January 1995) 1995 Works on Paper from 1972–1994, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay (20 March–11 April) 2007 Amitava Das: Tempera collage on rice paper, Art Heritage 1998 Recent Works, Nazar, Baroda (29 April – 9 May) 2000 Recent Works, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (7–23 February) 2003 Recent Works, Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 2004 Works on Paper, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (10 – 24 April) 2005 Thorn of Blood, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi 2007 Selected Works on Paper 1970 – 2007 , Gallery Espace, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours 1976 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1980-2 All India Exhibition of Prints, Chandigarh 1982 Sahitya Kala Parishad Award, New Delhi 1989 Fellowship from the Federal Republic of Germany for the advanced exposure to the exhibition and Graphic Design He has been profiled in A Painters Portraits a film by K. Bikram Singh for Doordarshan; Indian Songs- Multiple Streams in Contemporary Indian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Select Collections ❖ College of Art, New Delhi ❖ Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Government Museum, Chandigarh ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ❖ Ministry of External Addairs, Government of India, New Delhi ❖ Devender & Kanwaldeep Sahani, Mumbai ❖ V. Sanjay Kumar, Madras ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Punjab Museum, Chandigarh ❖ Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal ❖ Society of Contemporary Art, London (U.K.) AMITAVA DAS b. 27 May 1947 New Delhi