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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 299 298 Born: 8 May 1934, Ranchi, present-day Jharkhand Died: 19 May 2005, Kolkata Education 1950-55 Diploma in Painting, Govt. College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructural-building Activities 1954-56 Teacher, Jagbandhu Institution, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1958 Gold Medal, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1968 Award from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta 1972-3 Birla Academy Award, Calcutta 1975 Birla Academy Award, Calcutta 1982 Overthrown, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi 1988 Shiromani Puraskar, Calcutta Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad Award Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Society for Contemporary Artists Gallery, Calcutta (FS) 1964 Artistry House, Calcutta 1975 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1977 Paintings & Graphics, Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta 1978 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1982 Calcutta Art Gallery 1983 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1984 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta Watercolours, Sitaram Bhartia Institute, Calcutta Watercolours, Kala Yatra, Madras 1985 Gallery Espace, New Delhi Recent Paintings, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1986,88 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1987 NewWorks, Chitrakoot Art gallery, Calcutta 1989 Watercolours, Drawings & Paintings in Acrylic, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta Kala Yatra, Madras Watercolours, Gallery Chemould, Bombay 1991 Watercolours, Chitrakoot Art Gallery & Gallery Espace 1993 Works, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Paintings and Graphics, Birla Academy of Art & Culture 1995, 99 Paintings & Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 2001 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2002 Recent Paintings & Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery Shyamal Dutta Ray Born: Hooghly District, Bengal Education The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1928 Taught Fine arts, Theosophist Fellowship School of Art, Bombay Bombay run by the Theosophist Society Travelled to Ahmedabad to teach fine arts 1929 Founded the cultural society Rasamandal with fellow art lovers and friends 1930 Founded the Child Art Society, Bombay 1942 At his initiative the very first exhibition of children’s painting was organised at Bombay Town Hall (6-13 Febrary 1942) Also published a number of articles on children’s paintings in dailies and magazines Belonged to Neo-Bengal school of painting and his subjects were Krishna, Buddha and Ashoka Pulin Behari Dutta