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

199 Education 1944-9 Diploma (Fine Arts), Govt. College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1959-60 Fulbright Scholarship, USA Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1952-63 Taught at the School of Art, New Delhi 1971 Toured and lectured on Indian Contemporary Art in USSR and Czechoslovakia as part of the Cultural Exchange Programmes between India and these two countries Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Darjeeling, West Bengal 1952 Paintings – Biren De, Freemason’s Hall, New Delhi ( FS ; 18–22 January) 1953 Paintings – Biren De, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi 1954 Paintings – Biren De, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi 1956 Paintings – Biren De, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi (till 1 November) 1961 Biren De – Exhibition of Paintings, Kunika Centre for Contemporary Arts, New Delhi (November) 1963 Exhibition of Paintings – Biren De, Fine Arts Gallery, New Delhi (Till 21 December) 1965 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1967 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (15–30 November) 1971 Paintings, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1971 Biren De: A journey… as seen by 5 contemporaries 1973 Biren De – Within the Wheel, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (5–21 February) 1974 Exhibition of Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (6–21 September) Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi 1975 Hempsted Public Library, New York, USA Atelier-Galerie Irmgard Sen Gupta, Hamburg, West Germany 1977 Retrospective 1950–1977, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi (Till 21 October) 1990 Watercolours by Biren De, Galerie 88, Calcutta (24 January–4 February) 1991 Watercolours, Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi (6–24 September) 1999 A Passionate-Detachment, The Window, Mumbai (4–16 February) Select Awards and Honours 1958 Apparition, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1959-60 Fulbright Scholarship, USA 1964 Dying Ogre, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi BIREN DE b. 8 October 1926 Faridpur, present-day Bangladesh Select Collections ❖ Berlin State Museum, Germany ❖ Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Ford Foundation, New Delhi ❖ Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi ❖ Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, New Delhi ❖ Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Srinagar ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ❖ Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi ❖ Museum of Art, Bhopal ❖ Museum of Art, Chandigarh ❖ Museum of Contemporary Indian Art (Japan) ❖ Museum of Indian Art (Berlin) ❖ Museum of Modern Art, New York (U.S.A.) ❖ National Gallery of Czechoslovakia (Prague) ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Peabody Essex Museum (U.S.A.) ❖ Punjab Museum, Chandigarh ❖ University of Delhi, New Delhi