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

Born: 1910, Jugipada, Bankura, West Bengal Died: 1 August 1980, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1925-22 Diploma in Fine Arts, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Select Teaching and Infrastructure Building Activities 1925-22 His Posters and Portraits of Nationalist Leaders during Non- Cooperation Movement were noticed by R. Chatterjee 1925 Came to Santiniketan. He was the first artist in Santiniketan to use oil paint and create abstract works. He is known as the pioneer of Indian Sculpture Taught at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Head of the Department of Sculpture, Kala Bhavan Select Awards and Honours 1975 Sangeet Nritya Akademi Prize, Rabindra Bharati University 1975 Fellowship, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1942-47 New Delhi 1960-61 Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan Paintings, Sketches & Sulptures, Calcutta Arts Council, Calcutta 1972 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1990 Retrospective, NGMA, New Delhi Select Group Exhibitions 1944 Joint Exhibition with B.B. Mukherjee, New Delhi International Exposition of Non-figurative Art, Paris, France 1950-51 Salon de la Realites Nouvelles, Paris 1951 Exhibition with Calcutta Group, Calcutta 1960-61 Exhibition, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1972 Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art & Culture Calcutta 1974 Exhibition, Tokyo exhibition, Japan 1979 Asian Art Exhibition Tokyo 1990 Retrospective, NGMA, New Delhi 1991 Exhibition, Organised by NGMA and Nag Foundation, Bal Gangadhar Kala Dalan, Pune 1995 Man and Nature; Reflections of Six Artists, Curated by Keshav Malik, organised by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, NGMA, New Delhi 1995 Old Masters, Taj Palace Intercontinental, New Delhi 1997 Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism, curated by R. Siva Kumar, NGMA, New Delhi Ramkinkar Baij Bamapada Banerjee Born: 1851, Satgachia, Burdwan district Died: 1932 Education: Studied at the Government School of Art, Calcutta, during the principal-ship of Henry Havelock but, disillusioned with its pedagogy, left. Took private lessons with Pramathalal Mitra Subsequently worked as an apprentice to German painter Karl Becker, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure Building Activites 1879 Shows at the Third Calcutta Fine Art Exhibition organised by the Government Art School 1880-83 Travels through north India and makes portraits of the royal families, their ministers and retainers of Princely States such as Jaipur (Sawai Madho Singh), Alwar, Dholpur, Bharatpur and Gwalior amongst others. Makes portraits of notables in Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Mathura 1890 His first oleographs Arjun and Urvashi and Uttara and Abhimanyu are printed in Germany and sent back to India for sale 1905 Elected member of the Bengal Arts Council Select Awards and Honours 1879 Prize at an exhibition by Society for the Promotion of Industrial Art Select Group Exhibitions 2003 body.city - New Perspective from India, Hans der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), Berlin