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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 297 296 Bimal Dasgupta Born: 28 December 1917- Behrampur, West Bengal Died: 1995 Education 1937-43 Diploma in Painting, Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1963-77 Taught at Delhi College of Art, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours 1948 First Prize, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1952 First Prize, Mysore Art Exhibition, Mysore 1954 Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1954 First Prize, Hyderabad Art Exhibition, Hyderabad 1956 Din & Jukerman’s Prize, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1956 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1958 Certificate, National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1961-62 Government Scholarship to travel around Europe 1972 State Honour, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi Select Exhibitions 1952 Contemporary Indian Art, Travelling Exhibition, China, Japan 1956 Delhi Shilpi Chakra Artist Gallery, New Delhi 1957 Artistry House, Calcutta 1958 Travel India, Art Exhibition, Moscow, Germany & Poland 1961 Marshal Kowaska Gallery, Poland 1980 Sarala Art Gallery, Madras 1982 Calcutta Painters, Group Show, Calcutta 1986 Festival of India, Moscow, USSR 2003 Manifestations, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Born: 1912, Dacca, present-day Dhaka in Bangladesh Died: 21 July 1991, New Delhi Education 1932 Graduated from Calcutta University Trained in Sculpture in Lucknow & Madras Studied Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London & the ´Ecole de Grand Chaumiévre, Paris Select Awards and Honours 1955 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London 1982 Elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1945 Calcutta (FS) 1970 New Delhi 1971 Bombay 1973 Bombay 1976 Bombay Sculptures 1970-75 Gita Art Gallery, held at Oberoi Intercontinental Hotel, New Delhi 1991 A Retrospective 1912-1991, NGMA, New Delhi Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta (Show held with his students) Prodosh Dasgupta