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

228 Education 1954-7 M.A. (Malayalam Literature), Kerala University 1957-61 Fine Arts, Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 1962-5 Ph.D. Mural Painting of Kerala, Visva Bharati Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1965-92 Lecturer, History of Art, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi 1975 Study Tour of Japan on Japan Foundation Grant Select Solo Exhibitions 1966 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi (First Solo) (Also 1967, 1970, 1975 & 1977) 1978 Retrospective 1965–77, Kumar Gallery, Hansalaya, New Delhi 1979 21 ‘Portfolios of Etchings’, sponsored by SHAOOR, Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai 1981 Puppet Theatre, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1983 Retrospective, Kumar Gallery, Art Heritage, New Delhi Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1984 Water Bodies, Lalit Kala Studios’, Garhi 1991 Urvashi Pururavas and the Lotus Pond, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1991 Paintings and Watercolors, Kala Yatra, Bangalore 1994 Reality in Search of Myth, organized by Kala Yatra, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi 1996 Mythical traveler journeys into the unknown: Paintings and Watercolors, A.R.K.S. Gallery, London 1997 The Lotus Pond at Obeshwar, organized by Kala Yatra, Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore 1998 Icons of the Raw Earth, Part-I, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi; Part-II, Art Today, New Delhi 1998 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi 2001-2 Imagined Territory, paintings, drawings and sculpture, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (22 December – 21 January 2002) 2002 Exhibition of Watercolors, by Fine Arts Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2004 Retrospective, Vadehra Art Gallery at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours 1969 National Award for Painting, New Delhi 1973 National Award for Painting, New Delhi 1978 Noma Award Children’s Picture Book Illustration, Japan 1991 Parishad Sanman, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi 2000 Gagan – Abani Puraskar, Viswa Bharati University 2001 Manaviyam Award, Manaviyam Cultural Mission, Government of Kerala 2003 Raja Ravi Verma Puraskar, Government of Kerala 2005 Padma Bhushan, Government of India A. RAMACHANDRAN b. 29 August 1935, Attingal, Kerala Select Collections ❖ Art Heritage, New Delhi ❖ Barbier Collection, Geneva ❖ Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal ❖ Bobby and Sheila Sistas, Bombay ❖ Chandigarh Museum, Chandigarh ❖ Edda Bhattacharya, Frankfurt, Germany ❖ Eyvind Bartels, Denmark ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Kerala ❖ Maurya Sheraton Hotel, New Delhi ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal ❖ Sara Abraham Family Collection, Madras & Bangalore ❖ Surjit Jaiswal Collection