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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 289 288 Born: 22 April 1930, Calcutta, West Bengal Died: 11 November 1966, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1949 Enrolled at Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta (Unfinished Diploma in Fine Arts) Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1950-66 Art Lecturer in the Mitra Institution, Calcutta 1951 Founder Member and Secretary, Chitrangshu Group, Calcutta 1960 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1963 Founder Member, Calcutta Group of Painters Illustrator in Bengali News Weeklies, ‘Darpan’ & ‘Janasebak Sapthahik’ Select Awards and Honours 1954 Mother at Work, Mr. B.M. Birla’s Gold Medal for best work in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1956 Gold Medal, Most important Modern Indian Painter, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1953 Calcutta 1954,59,60-62 Calcutta 1965 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Drawings, Berlin, Munich, West Germany Drawings and Rolling Pictures from India, Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic, Dresden, Halle, Madgeburg 1967 Selection of Works from 1950-1966, organised by Mrs. Bina Biswas, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Retrospective, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1975 Nikhil Biswas- A Selection of Works, organised by the Nikhil Biswas Memorial Committee, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1978 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1987 Retrospective, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1988 Nikhil Biswas - Retrospective, Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta 1989 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1990 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1992 Nikhil Biswas Retrospective, Om Gallery of Art, New Delhi 1993 Nikhil Biswas A Passionate Creator, organised by Alliance Française de Delhi, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi, 1994-5 Nikhil Biswas, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 2001 The Untamed, Drawings and Watercolours, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 2006 Paintings by Nikhil Biswas, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1954 Bombay 1955 Bombay 1956 Bombay 1960 Bombay 1963 Calcutta 1964 Calcutta & New Delhi 1965 Calcutta & New Delhi Undated Paintings by Nikhil Biswas, Sculptures by Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta [ExC.pc] Nikhil Biswas