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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 303 302 Born: 13 April 1921, Barama, Chittagong, present-day Bangladesh Died: 2006, Santiniketan, West Bengal Education Self-Taught 1945 Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta (incomplete education) Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1954-58 Lecturer, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta 1958-67 Senior Lecturer and Head of Graphic Arts Faculty, Delhi Polytechnic of Art, New Delhi 1958-67 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda and Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1966 Visiting Professor in Graphic Arts Faculty, Faculty of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda 1969-84 Visiting Professor, Graphic Arts Department Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1968-69 Visiting Professor, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1984-91 Professor Emeritus, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Select Awards and Honours 1960 Companions, National Award (Painting), Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1962 Birth of a White Rose, National Award (Graphics), Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1963 Dream, National Award (Graphics), Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1977 L.N. Gupta Memorial Award 1979 Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta Elected Member of the General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi as an eminent Artist 1984 Gagan-Abani Award, Calcutta 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (9 August) Somnath Hore Select Solo Exhibitions 1956 Calcutta (FS) 1957-8 Calcutta 1960 New Delhi 1961-2 Calcutta 1963 New Delhi 1965 New Delhi 1967 New Delhi 1968 Calcutta 1973 Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi 1988 Sculptures and Sketches, organised by Kala Yatra, Sistas Art Gallery, Bangalore 1991 Calcutta 1992 Wounds, Somnath Hore’s Bronzes, Drawings and Prints, organized by Seagull, Calcutta, Sukh Sagar, Calcutta 1995 Bronzes, Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta 1999 Anguish Absorbed, The Window, Mumbai 2007 Life and Art: Sculpture, Graphics, Drawings and Paintings (in memory of Somnath Hore), Galerie 88, Kolkata