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

214 Education 1950-7 Artistic apprenticeship with Dilip Das Gupta in his studio 1953 Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta 1968 Studied art on a Fellowship for a year in France Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1950s Spearheaded a movement for taking art to the public 1961 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists 1964 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters 1964-5 Worked in Nirode Mazumdar’s studio, Calcutta 1971 Selected as Vice-President, Prayag Kala Samity Founder Member, Calcutta Art Fair Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Drawings, Galerie 88, Calcutta 1953 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1955 Calcutta 1959 Pavement Show, Calcutta Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1960 Calcutta 1962 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi (Also in 1963, 1964) 1963 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society,New Delhi 1964 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi 1967 Calcutta 1969 Calcutta 1970 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1971 New Delhi 1974 Calcutta 1976 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi 1977 Calcutta 1983 Calcutta 1984 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi 1988 Gallery BF/ 14, Calcutta 1989 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1992 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1993 Calcutta L.T.G. Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Calcutta 1996 New Delhi 1999 Calcutta 2000 Calcutta 2002 Prokash Karmakar: Recent Works, Galerie 88, Kolkata 2004 Prokash Karmakar and Kartick Pyne: Oils, Acrylics and Water colours , Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (5 -15 October) 2005 Recent works by Prokash Karmakar, Art and Deal, New Delhi (2–15 July) PROKASH KARMAKAR b. 1933 Calcutta, West Bengal Select Awards and Honours 1957 Certificate of Merit, National Exhibition, New Delhi 1966 The Passion Gropes, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1968 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Fellowship to study art in Paris by the Government of France 1969-70 Additional grant for extensive travel in Western Europe 1970 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Calcutta 1976 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta Special Award, Maha Koshla Kala Parishad, Raipur 1996 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi 1999 Abanindra Puraskar, Government of West Bengal Select Collections ❖ Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata ❖ Allahabad Museum, Allahabad ❖ Art Heritage, New Delhi ❖ Ashish Anand and Delhi Art Gallery ❖ Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal ❖ Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata ❖ Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Hyderabad Museum, Hyderabad ❖ Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, Dubai (U.A.E.) ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, Bangalore, Lucknow and New Delhi ❖ Lucknow Museum, Lucknow ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Sangita Kathiwada Collection ❖ Tata Centre, Jamshedpur