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

Born: 1930, Chittagong, present-day Bangladesh Died: 2005 Education 1954 Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta 1958-61 Vysokaskola Umelec Koprumuslova, Prague, Czechoslovakia under “Exchange of scholars programme” between India and Czechoslovakia Select Awards and Honours 1962 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Starometska Radnice, Prague Society of Contemporary Artists Gallery, Calcutta 1965 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society 1972 USIS, Calcutta 1970 Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, Select Group Exhibitions 1962-63 Commonwealth Art Today, London & Edinburgh 1968 Indian Triennale of International Art, New Delhi 1969 Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1971 Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1972 Indian Triennale of International Art, New Delhi 1975 Indian Triennale of International Art, New Delhi 1979 Modern Asian Art, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 1980 Lalit Kala Akademi, Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Bombay Ajit Chakraborty Born: 22 February 1898, Mymensingh, present-day Bangladesh Died: 10 July 1977, Calcutta Education 1913 Scholarship, to study Engineering, Bengal Technical Institute (now the Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, Calcutta) 1914 Jubilee Art Academy (Hemendranath Mazumdar and Jogesh Chandra Seal were his classmates) 1916-8 Diploma, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta (during the principal-ship of Percy Brown) 1924-26 Wins the Guru Prasanna Ghosh Scholarship, Calcutta University, to go to study at the Royal Academy of Art, London Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1930-31 Goes to England to make copies of the portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Mary to be installed in the Viceroy’s Lodge, Delhi (now the Rashtrapati Bhavan) c.1932 Is the chief mover of the Indian Academy of Art founded by artists such as Atul Bose, Jamini Roy, Hemendranath Mazumdar 1933-34 Heads the first exhibition organised by the newly-born Academy of Fine Arts at the Indian Museum, Calcutta (now the National Museum) 1945 Principal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1971 Conferred Hon. D. Litt, Rabindra Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan Select Solo and Group Exhibitions 1923 Received recognition, life - sketch of Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, (The Royal Bengal Tiger), exhibited in the Second Annual Exhibition 1937,43 Calcutta 1965 Retrospective Exhibition, (1916-66), Academy of Fine Arts 1998 Galerie La Mere, Calcutta Atul Chandra Bose