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

Born: 3 November 1876, Calcutta, West Bengal Died: 8 March 1953, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Studied under the tutelage of Gangadhar Dey and Charles G. Palmer (Oil painting) Student at Calcutta School of Art Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1916 Vice Principal, Art School of Calcutta (replacing his uncle Abanindranath Tagore) Select Awards and Honors 1899 Critique on his Kadambani Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore in Pradip 1900 Kadambani Chitra displayed in exhibition during Calcutta Session of Indian National Congress 1902 West Banks of the Ganges, Finlay Award, Simla Art Society Exhibition 1904 Morning Mist, Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society 1905 Member Bangiya Kala Samsad, Calcutta 1906 Award Darjeeling exhibition, Darjeeling 1907 Founder member, Indian Society of Oriental Art (ISOA), Calcutta 1908 Award Annual Exhibition ISOA, Calcutta 1910 Seascape, Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society 1921 Advisor, Society of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1930s Conferred the ‘Cavalier to the Crown’ by KingVictor Emmanuel III of Italy (in appreciation of the painting Dusk on the River Padma which was acquired by the Queen Consort) 1936 Joint Director, AFA, Calcutta 1942 Published book ‘Early Reminiscences’, ‘On a Cloudy Night’ Received great critical acclaim in The Times of India, for capturing a typical view of nature and the peculiar quality of the Indian intellect Select Group Exhibitions 1902 Simla Art Society, Simla 1904,07 Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1906 Exhbition Darjeeling 1908 Exhibition Calcutta Art Society, Calcutta 1908 Annual Exhibition, ISOA, Calcutta. Annual Exhibition, Madras Art Society Madras Exhibition, AFA, Calcutta Jamini Prokash Gangooly Birth : Manikgunje sub-division of Dhaka, present-day Bangladesh Died: 27 October 1927 Education Studied art at Government School of Art during the principal-ship of William Henry Jobbins and followed the style of European Classical painting. When E.B. Havell succeeded Jobbins and in 1896 decided to create two new departments and introduce the study of Oriental Art, a group of students under Ranadaprasad’s leadership left the school in protest Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building and Teaching Activities 1897 Subsequently with the financial assistance of a few wealthy people and Calcutta Corporation, he set up, with himself as Founder-Director, the Jubilee Art Academy at Baithakkhana. Roa Narendranath Sarkar, Fanindranath Basu, Hemendranath Mazumdar, Jogesh Chandra Seal, Atul Bose, Basantkumar Gangopadhyay, Pramatha Nath Mallick, Abhayacharan Das and Prahlad Chandra Karmakar were students of the Jubilee Art Academy. He also gained the company of Rashtraguru Surendranath Bandyopadhyay and Swami Vivekananda. During the partition of Bengal, he painted the picture of ‘Bangamata’ on Surendranath’s instruction Select Awards and Honours 1905 He was one of the leading assistant-secretaries of ‘Bangiya Kala Samsad’ Ranadaprasad Das Gupta