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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 293 292 Ramendranath Chakravorty Born: 25 October 1902, Agartala, Tripura Died: 6 July 1955, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Studied Art under Abanindranath Tagore,GSA, Calcutta Studied under Suren Kar and Andrei Karpeles, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Completed print making course in Slade School of Art, London 1920 Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata 1923 Studied art under Nandalal Bose at Santiniketan Studied woodcut craft under Andre Carpeles, France 1937 Studied etching and art under Sir Muirhead Bone, Europe Select Teaching and Infrastructural-Building Activities 1926 Taught at Andhra Jatheeya Kalasala, Andhra Pradesh 1928 Joined as Art Teacher, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1929 Head Asst. Teacher, Government School of Art, Calcutta 1930 Head Master, Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata 1933 Rabindranath Tagore composed poems on two of Chakravorty’s Paintings (Vichitra 1933) 1943 Principal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata 1946 Head of the Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi 1948 Principal, Government College of Art, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1933 Publication of Vichitra poems on the paintings of Ramendranath Chakravorty by Rabindranath Tagore 1944 Sketches of Europe tour were published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. Joined the Publication Division, Govt. of India. Wrote the article and illustrated Call of the Himalayas (Dedicated to his master Nandalal Bose) Select Solo Exhibitions 1936 Calcutta, New Delhi, Bombay, Santiniketan, San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC 1937 Paintings, Colour Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Woodcuts, The India Society, London, UK 1938 Paintings, Etchings and Drawings, Roy Studio, London Exhibitions of works by Ramendranath Chakravorty were also held in Calcutta, New Delhi, Bombay, Santiniketan, San Francisco & the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. Born : 24 February 1916, Santhal Parganas, Bihar Died: 28 August 2006 Education 1939 Bachelor of Arts, Santiniketan 1945 Diploma in Fine Arts with distinction in Sculpture, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1945 Went to Nepal to assist Ramkinkar to execute War Memorial 1945 Studied Nepalese System of Metal Casting 1949 Study tour of Europe. Worked in Paris and England. Visited Art Centres of Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland 1966-68 Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda 1980 Professor of Fine Arts, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Select Awards and Honours 1956 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi 1971 Padma Shri by the President of India 1974 D. Litt (Honoris Causa) by the Center Escolar University, Philippines 1981 Aban-Gagan Award fromViswa Bharati University 1982 Fellow Lalit Kala Akademi Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikar Purskar for Life Time achievement Select Exhibitions 1946 1st One-man Show, Mumbai 1954 Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, NGMA 1957 One-man show in New Delhi 1969 One-man show in Mumbai 1979 Joint Exhibition with Ira Chaudhuri, Bombay 1971 Retrospective show, National Gallery of Modem Art, Delhi 1987 One man show, Delhi 1987 One man show of sketches and drawings, Calcutta 1992 One man show, Calcutta 1993 One man show, LTG Art Gallery, Delhi 1995 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai 1997 Exhibition at NGMA, Delhi 2010 Celebration 2010, Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi Sankho Chaudhuri