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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 285 284 Born: 29 November 1910, Potazia Village, Pabna District, present-day Bangladesh Died: 19 October 1977, Calcutta Education 1939 Studied at Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta under the principalship of Mukul Dey Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Taught art in schools 1951 Joined Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan at the invitation of Rabindranath Tagore 1963-73 Oficiated twice as Principal, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Also served as an examiner of Fine Arts, Patna Government College of Arts and at Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan Selected by the Bihar Government’s Ministry of Education to serve as Principal of the Patna Government College of Arts, where he had been engaged as a Visiting Professor of Fine Arts Select Awards and Honours 1934 Best Exhibitors Prize, Government College of Art and Craft Exhibition, Calcutta 1935 Gold Centered Medal & Certificate of Honour, Calcutta University Second Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1939 wMeherunnessa’ in Mughal Style, First Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1940 ‘Diamond of Nazore’ , All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1946 ‘Sultana Regia’ , Rabindranath Tagore Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1952 ‘Aurangzeb’ , Punjab Government Gold Medal, All India Fine Arts Exhibition, Punjab 1958 President’s Gold and Silver combined plaque, All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras Gold Centered Medal (Traditional Indian Paintings), All India Exhibition, Patna Commissioned for Fresco painting in Mahajati Sadal Hall, West Bengal Government Commissioned to depict the different stages of the life of Gautam Buddha for Buddha Jayanti Celebrations, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Design of a Stamp, Philatelic Society, Government of India 1959 ‘Meghdutam’ (scroll painting), Gold Medal, Akhil Bharatiya Kalidas Samaroh, New Delhi Gold and Silver Plaque, All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras 1960 ‘Yaksha’ (stamp design commemorating Kalidasa’s poetry), Philatelist Society Award, Govt. of India 1961 Commissioned for life size oil paintings of Rabindranath Tagore and the Tagore Family, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan 1962 Sir Cowasji Dart Prize (Best Mughal Miniature Painting by an Indian), Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1966 ‘Abhigyan Shakuntalam’ , First Prize by the Prime Minister of India, Akhil Bharatiya Kalidasa Samaroh, Government of Madhya Pradesh ‘ Abhigyan Shakuntalam’ (scroll painting on Assamese Muga silk), Gold Medal, Akhil Bharatiya Kalidas Samaroh, New Delhi First Prize, All India Kalidas Exhibition, Calcutta 1968 First Prize, All India Kalidas Exhibition, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1965 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 2003 Forgotten Pioneers of Modern Bengal Series, Galerie 88, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1934 Government School of Arts Exhibition, Calcutta 1935 Seventh Annual Exhibition for Tempera Work in Indian Style, Calcutta University, Calcutta Government College of Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Calcutta Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1939 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1940 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1946 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1952 All India Fine Arts Exhibition, Punjab 1958 All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras All India Exhibition, Patna 1959 Akhil Bharatiya Kalidasa Samaroh, organised by Government of Madhya Pradesh All India Exhibition, Patna All India Exhibition of Paintings, Madras 1962 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1966 Akhil Bharatiya Kalidasa Samaroh, Government of Madhya Pradesh Akhil Bharatiya Kalidas Samaroh, New Delhi 1968 All India Kalidas Exhibition, Calcutta Radha Charan Bagchi