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

206 Education Trained for a year at the Indore School of Art, under the tutelage of D.D. Deolalikar and guidance of senior student N.S.Bendre and trained briefly at Sir. J.J.School of Art, Bombay. Formal academic and art education left incomplete Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1948 Joined the Progressive Artists’ Group, Bombay, 1952 Part of a 60 member delegation from India to the World Peace Conference, China 1957 Murals for Air India International in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Zurich, Prague 1963 Mural, World Health Organization, New Delhi Mural in Mosaic for Aligarh University 1986-92 Nominated to the Rajya Sabha 1988 Participated in a fund raising programme for the Bombay Art Society with Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Tata Theatre, Bombay 1990s Established Sankalana Museum, Banglore, on land allotted by the then Chief Minister of Karnataka, Ramakrishna Hegde 1991 Painted the Satyajit Ray Series as part of the Indian Express Fund raiser for victims of the Garhwal earthquake 1992 Established his own gallery, Husain ki Sarai, in Faridabad 1995 Started the Husain-Doshi Gufa in Ahmedabad 2001 Associated with RABO India Finance Pvt. Ltd., to encourage associations between art and banking Select Solo Exhibitions 1950 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1955 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1956 Gallery Palette, Zürich; Gallery Mannes, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1960 Gallery Palse, Rome (Italy); Kunst Kabinet, Frankfurt (Organised by Henna Bekkar von Rath and Kumar Gallery), West Germany 1961 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta Chemould Gallery, Bombay Tokyo (Japan) and Gallery Palse, Rome (Italy) 1962 Bombay and New Delhi Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta 1964 Dhoomi Mal Art Gallery, New Delhi Indian House, New York (USA) 1965 Drawings – The Arab Image, Gallery Chemould, Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi Gallery Wasity, Baghdad (Iraq); Kabul (Afghanistan) 1966 Bombay Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi 1967 New York (USA); Poland and Czechoslovakia Dhoomimal Gallery and Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi 1968 Images of Kerala, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Six Days of Making: Movements and Moods in Paintings, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi (27 December – 1 January 1969) 1969 Dhoomimal Gallery and Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi 1969 21 Years of Painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (Organised by Gallery Chemould) Taj Art Gallery, Bombay (March) Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi (July) Gallery du Grand Meselles, Geneva MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN b .17 September 1915 Pandharpur, Maharashtra 1971 Ashoka Hotel Gallery, New Delhi (Organised by Gallery Chanakya and Pundole Art Gallery) 1972 Paintings 1971, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1973 Retrospective, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta Espace Cardin, Paris (France) 1974 Commonwealth Art Centre, London (UK); Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (USSR) Paintings by Husain, Worcester Art Museum (U.S.A.) 1975 Maqbool Fida Husain, Sarala Art Centre, Madras (2–14 February) 1978 Sufi Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay Ragmala Paintings, Centaur Hotel Lawns, Bombay Portrait of an Umbrella, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi Retrospective, Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ( ORganised by Pundole Art Gallery) 1979 Husain in Malaysia, The Hilton, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Organised by Pundole Art Gallery 1980 Mother and Child: A Tribute to Mother Teresa, Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta 1981 Les Otages – Mere Theresa, Galerie Jourdan, Montreal, Canada Culture of the Streets, Art Heritage, New Delhi 1982 Culture of the Streets, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (6–24 April) 1983 Story of a Brush, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Images of the Raj, Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore; Kala Yatra, Bangalore (1–29 November) 1988 Husain, Hunter Museum of Art,Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA) (21 August – 2 October) 1990 Installations , Theatre of the Absurd, New Delhi 1991 Installations, Shwetambari (white is super abundance), Bombay Front Page, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi (3–8 April) 1992 Six Days of Live Painting, Tata Centre, Calcutta 1993 Let History Cut across Me without Me, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, sponsored by the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Civilization, Violence and Pather Panchali, NGMA, New Delhi (9 – 30 January) 1994 Oils on Canvas 31 st Anniversary Exhibition, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1995 Maqbool Fida Husain, Art Today, New Delhi (13 November – 9 December) 14 Serigraphs on Madhuri Dixit, Surya Gallery, Hyderabad (3–28 October) A Visual Script of ‘Untitled Film on Madhuri’, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (24 December) 1996 From Sinhasan to Peacock Throne to the Chair of the 21 st Century – M.F. Husain & Jehangir Nagree Exhibition of Furniture, Taj Mahal, Bombay (Organised by the Living Room (10 October) 1998 Maqbool Fida Husain: The Beacon of Energy, The Window, Mumbai (26 November–8 December) Husain Now, Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta 2002 Madhuri as Saratchandra’s Chandramukhi: the Eternal Enchantress of Devdas, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (11–20 July) 2002 M.F. Husain, Limited Edition Graphics and Reproduction, Sakshi Gallery (in association with Archer, Ahmedabad), Mumbai (19–31 October)