Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

Produced & Published in India (December 2011) by Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art Pvt. Ltd. g–2B nariman Bhavan nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021. InDIa T +91 22 6632 4070 F +91 22 6632 5655 B-35 Qutub Institutional area, new Delhi 110016. InDIa T +91 11 4174 3166 F +91 11 4174 3177 E auctions@osians.com / www.osians.com Auction Warehousing & Logistics Service Provider KKT art advisory Services Pvt. ltd. antop Hill Warehousing Complex - C-105 V.I.T. College Road Wadala (east), mumbai - 400 037 T: +91 22 24152388 E services@kktart.com all rights are reserved under copyright conventions. no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher. Osian’s auction House, Publishing and Design House & CaRD (Center of archiving, Research & Development) Head neville Tuli Specialists Sucharita apte, Sheen Bhatia, neeti Mallick, aditi Mittal & Sonia Sahni Design House Vilas D’Britto, Chetan Shastri & Sanjay Colaco Conservation Laboratory & Cataloguing Support amitesh Kumar & aditya Kanth Cataloguing Support Murtaza Saify, Sheen Bhatia, Sonia Sahni aditi Mittal, Sucharita apte, Prabhas Kejriwal Mangesh Masurkar & Ravi Raut Bibliography Rakesh Sahni Digital & Economic Databank ashok Vaidikar & P. Chellappa Website Management Digvijay Kathiwada & Tarak Shah Printing JaK Printers Pvt. ltd. JaK Compound, Dadoji Konddeo Cross lane Off Dr. Babasaheb ambedkar Marg Byculla (east) Mumbai 400 027 T +91 22 23772222 F +91 22 23771212 E jakprint@vsnl.net In conjunction with Osian’s auction Creative India Series 1 – Bengal 7:30pm, Thursday 15 December 2011 The Imperial, Janpath, New Delhi 110001 InDIa lots for Sale 134 / pp 334 & 170 + colour reproductions ISBN 81-8174-037-8 (Osian’s) Text & Image © Osian’s–Connoisseurs of art Pvt. ltd. Bengal 15 December 2011 CReaTIVe InDIa SeRIeS 1 CReaTIVe InDIa SeRIeS 1 Bengal Auction 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 www . osians . com Cover Images Front Cover lot 34 nandalal Bose; Inside Front Cover lot 73 D.P. Roy Chowdhury Back Cover lot 14 anonymous artist; Inside Back Cover lot 47 Jamini Roy Front Flap lot 62 Hemendranath Mazumdar; Back Flap lot 48 Jamini Roy The front cover image by nandalal Bose has been digitally altered. The halo around Shiva has been enhanced to look like a moon so that Osian’s can be written as an text-image interplay.