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

Sunil Kumar Das Born: 27 February 1952, Ichhapore, West Bengal Education 1954-59 Diploma in Fine Arts, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta 1975 Graduated from Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Calcutta 1977 - 79 Advance Studies in Sculpture at Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan on Government of India National Cultural Scholarship Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1955-66 Joined Weaver’s Service Centre office of the Handloom, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India 1960 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1961-63 L’Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts, Paris (French Government Scholarship) 1962 Member de la Societe des Amis des Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris 1966 Member of the Jury, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Member of the General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi 1980 Joint Secretary, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1982 Committee Member, 5th Triennale India 1983,90 Coordinator, Art Camp, Max Muller Bhavan, Calcutta Commissioner for the Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil 1983 Member of Jury, Prix des Ettangeres, Paris Select Awards and Honours 1959 Three Horses, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi 1960 Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Gold Medal, Calcutta University, Calcutta 1961 Winner of the French Government Scholarship for Fine Arts and Fresco Painting 1966 Sunil Das One, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1976 West Bengal State Academy 1978 Rotation of Mankind, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi 1991 Shiromani Purashkar Award, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1958 Assam Cotton College, Guwahati 1959 Artist House, Calcutta 1961 Club de Quatre Vents, Paris, France 1962 Foyer des Artistes Gallery, Paris, France Gallery Jean Lafond, France 1963 Gallery Maison des Beaux Arts, Paris, France 1964 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1965 Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi Gallery Arts and Prints, Calcutta All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Prix des Ettangeres, Paris Recent Drawings and Watercolours, Gallery Kunika- Chemould, New Delhi 1966 Gallery Priyadarshini, Calcutta Gallery Chemould, Calcutta and Bombay 1967 Artist’s Private Residence, Calcutta Calcutta Information Centre, Calcutta 1968 Retrospective, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta 1969 Recent Works, Indo-American Society, Calcutta 1970 Gallery Unique, Calcutta Gallery Chemould, Calcutta 1971 Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta Heidelberg, Germany 1972 Musafir, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta USIS Auditorium, Calcutta 1974 Sarala Art Gallery, Madras 1975 Poiker Gallery, Hamilton, NewYork, USA 1976 Retrospective, Calcutta 1976-8 Exhibitions in Basel, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Retrospective, Kuala Lumpur, Basel, NewYork (USA) 1983 Paintings and Drawings, sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta 1984 Confrontations, sponsored by ITC, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1986 Trends in Bengal Art, Tata Centre, Calcutta Sunil Das, Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi 1988 Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1990 Gallerie Ganesha, New Delhi 1991 Centre Art Gallery, Calcutta 1994 Recent Drawings, CIMA 1995 Drawing Installations, Village Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995-96 Many Faces of Sunil Das, Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi 1996 British Council, Calcutta 1997 The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1998 Gallery Mohanjeet, Paris, France 1999 Drawings and Collages, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai Paintings, ABC Academy of Art & Culture, San Francisco Gajah Gallery, Singapore 1999-2000 Old Works by Sunil Das, Gallery Om, New Delhi 2000 Art Heritage, New Delhi 2001 Drawings - Bulls and Horses, Dhoomimal Art Centre, New Delhi 2003 Sunil Das in Retrospect 1957-2003, ITC Sonar Bangla Art Gallery, Kolkata 2005 Horses…and Bulls - Paintings on Canvas and Paper by Sunil Das, Jamaat In The Sky, Mumbai 2005-06 Art Moves-Work by Sunil Das, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi & Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi