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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 291 290 Born: 3 December 1882, Kharagpur, Monghyr, Bihar Died: 16 April 1966, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1897-1902 Khudiram Bose Central Collegiate School, Calcutta 1903-05 Studied Commerce, Presidency College, Calcutta 1905-10 Government Art College, Calcutta under the tutelage of Vice Principal Abanindranath Tagore Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1909-10 At the insistance of Abanindranath Tagore and Sister Nivedita, joined Asit Kumar Haldar, Samarendranath Gupta, K. Venkatappa and others to copy the Frescoes of the Ajanta Caves, under the patronage of Lady Herringham 1909 Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s book of poems Chayanika 1912-14 Worked with Abanindranath Tagore at Jorasanko (Calcutta), Illustrated ‘Hindu and Buddhist Myths and Legends’ by A.K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita. Taught Art at the Nivedita Girls School, Calcutta 1916 Founder-Member (with Rabindranath Tagore) of Vichitra Sabha, Calcutta Learned Japanese Ink Painting techniques from Arai Kempo, visiting artist at Jorasanko, Calcutta 1916-17 Executed Murals at the residence of Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose and Basu Vigyan Mandir, Calcutta 1917 Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Book of Songs and Verse ‘Gitabitan’ (garden od songs) 1918-19 Taught intermittently at ISOA, Calcutta and Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan Illustrated Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize winning Book of Verse ‘Geetanjali’ 1920 Joined Kala-Bhavan, Santiniketan With Asit Haldar & others, copied Frescoes at Bagh Caves 1922-51 Principal, Kala-Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University 1924 Travelled to Burma, Malaysia, China and Japan in the company of Rabindranath Tagore 1931 Illustrated the popular Bengali Text Book Sahaj Path for Children 1934 Delivered a New Education Fellowship Lecture on The Place of Art in Education, organised during the Bengal Education Week in Calcutta 1937 A book containing selected poems by Rabindranath Tagore and Drawings by Nandalal Bose was published 1938 Decorated the stalls of the Indian National Congress at Haripura with a set of attractive posters 1939 Commissioned by the Maharaja of Baroda to paint the Kirti Mandir, Baroda 1940 Exhanged views with Mahatama Gandhi on the future of the Viswa-Bharati and Kala-Bhavan 1942 Mural Natir Puja, China Bhavan, Santiniketan 1948 Planned the layout and design of the Ramakrishna Temple at Kamarpukur Designed emblems for the Government of India’s awards, including Bharat Ratna and Padma Shri Select Awards and Honours 1908 Sati Mounting the Pyre and Satir Dehatyag, cash prize of INR 500, Indian Society of Oriental Art (First Exhibition) 1950 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Benaras Hindu University 1951 Professor Emeritus, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan 1952 Desikottama Award, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan 1953 Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize, Bombay 1954 Padma Vibhushan, Government of India 1956 Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1957 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Calcutta University 1958 Silver Jubilee Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1963 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Rabindra Bharati University 1965 Tagore Birth Centenary Medal, Asiatic Society, Bombay Deemed `National Art Treasure` by the Govt. of India Select Solo Exhibitions 1953 Retrospective, Bombay 1954 Retrospective, Calcutta 1982 Centenary Retrospective, NGMA, New Delhi 1988 Nandalal Bose: Haripura panels. For the commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of India’s Independence and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary - 1987-89, NGMA 1990 Kala Yatra 1991 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1996 Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta 2008 Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego & The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Select Group Exhibitions 1908 Inaugural Exibition: Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta (Also 1910 & 1912) 1909 ISOA, Simla 1911 ISOA’s United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, England (Organised by Indian Society of Oriental Art for George V’s Coronation) 1914 22nd Exhibition of Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris; travelling to Belgium, Holland & Imperial Institute, England 1915-6 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta Young Men’s Indian Association, Madras 1924 Travelling exhibition to USA, organised by American Federation of Art and ISOA (Calcutta) 1928 Athenee Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 1935 Exhibition by students of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan at the Lucknow Session of the Indian National Congress Nandalal Bose (Left Abanindranath Tagore; right Nandalal Bose)