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

243 Education Studied Art at the Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic (Part Time) 1958 Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland 1969-71 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, New Delhi Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Visiting Professor, Jamia Milia University, New Delhi 1981-90 Founder Director, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (Invited by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to set it up) Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 New Delhi 1964 New Delhi 1965 Watercolours, New Delhi Gallery Chemould, Bombay (26 November–4 December) 1966 Colour Geometry of Space, New Delhi 1969 New Delhi 1970 New Delhi (Twice) 1971 Simla Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (11–23 October) 1972 Perceptions Series, Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi (12–18 January) 1973 New Delhi 1974 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi 1979 Paintings by J. Swaminathan, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi (16 February–3 March) 1988 Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi (26 March–15 April) 1991 Recent Works, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (12–30 December) 1992 Recent Works, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi (24 January–24 February) 1993 Paintings, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (15 October–14 November) 1995 Bharat Bhavan, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours 1968 Awarded Nehru Scholrship 1994 Kalidas Sanman , Government of Madhya Pradesh Select Collections ❖ Arun Vadehra and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi ❖ Gallery Chemould, Mumbai ❖ Jehangir Nicholson Museum, NCPA, Mumbai ❖ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ❖ Masanori Fukuoka and Glenbarra Museum, Hemeji, Japan ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Nordness Collection, New York ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN b. 21 June, 1928 Sanjauli, Simla, Himachal Pradesh d. 25 April 1994 New Delhi Education Self-taught Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1907 Founder Member, The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1910 Collection of Indian miniatures (exhibited with the Indian Society for Oriental Art, Calcutta) published by the Society 1912 Illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore’s Jivansmriti 1916-8 Instrumental in gaining Government aid through Lord Carmichael to establish the Bengal Home Industries Association, Calcutta Published Virupa Vajra (Play of Opposites) and Advoot Lok (Realm of the Absurd), two volumes of caricatures Published Nava Hullor (Reform screams), a third volume of caricatures, with Thacker Spinks Published Bhodor Bahadue (Otter the Great), Signet Press, Calcutta – the only literary work in Bengali left behind by the artist. Formed the purchase committee of the Government Art Gallery, along with Abanindranath Tagore, Justice Woodroffe, Norman Blount, Rueboson and Muller. Select Solo Exhibitions 1923 Berlin and Hamburg, Germany 1967 Gaganendranath’s Centenary Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (18–24 September) 1976 Advoot Lok, Academy of Fine Arts,Calcutta (21–27 June) 1979 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (17–20 March) 1987 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (29 May–7 June) Select Collections ❖ Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata ❖ Bharat Kala Bhavan, Benares HinduUniversity, Varanasi ❖ H.K. Kejriwal Collection ❖ Indian Museum, Kolkata ❖ Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan ❖ Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Rabindra Bharati Society, Kolkata ❖ The Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (U.K.) GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE b .18 September 1867 Calcutta, West Bengal d. 14 February 1938 Calcutta, West Bengal