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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 305 304 Born: 19 April 1915, Kharagpur, West Bengal Died: 3 October 2005 Education He and his brothers were encouraged by their father to draw and paint as pastime. Consequently he developed a passion for visual art from his childhood; but his father did not allow him to pursue art as a career and he grew up as a self taught artist 1930-1 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta (Studied Painting under Kshitindranath Majumdar and Sculpture under Shri Giridhari Maharana, a hereditary carver from Orissa) 1938 Studied Sculpture under Prof. R. Wlerick at Académié de la Grande Chaumiére, Paris & Stone Carving at the Atelier of M. Victor Giovanelli Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1930 He became a regular exhibitor of paintings at all major exhibitions in Calcutta and other centers 1935-7 Served as a School Teacher in Bengal 1940-2 Lecturer in Art and Craft, Teacher’s Training Department, University of Calcutta 1943-5 Lecturer in Sculpture, Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic 1946 Left for London where he settled down as a practicing artist. During his stay in London he prepared two excellent monographs on Indian Sculpture published by Alec Trianti Ltd, London 1956 Principal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata when he first organised open air show of sculptures 1960-1 Worked on Restoration of Paintings under the Directorate General des Musées de France under a French Government Scholarship Keeper, Art Gallery, Indian Museum, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1948 Awarded Silver Medal and Diploma for Great Britain at the International Competition of Sport in Art, XIV Olympiad, London 1974 Padmabhushan, Government of India 1983 Conferred Fellowship Emeritus, Govt. of India 1986 D’Litt. (Honoris Causa), Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta Chintamoni Kar 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puruskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Member, Royal Society of British Sculptors, London Member, International Institution for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London Visited USSR, Mongolia, East Germany and Romania on Cultural Exchange Programme Select Solo Exhibitions 1936 Painting, Calcutta 1938 New Delhi Paintings, Grand Salon, Paris 1944-5 Painting and Sculpture, New Delhi 1946 Paintings, Paris Paintings, London 1948-58 Regular Showings at the Royal Academy, London 1948-50 Royal Society of British Artists, London 1950 Sculpture, Painting and Ceramics, Gallerie des Garets, France 1952 Sculpture, London 1954 Sculpture and Painting, New Delhi 1964 Sculpture and Drawing, New Delhi 1970-71 New Delhi 1975 Retrospective, Calcutta 1985 Retrospective exhibition 1930-85, The Indian Museum, Calcutta 1993 Sculptures and Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1995 Retrospective: Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Gaganendra Chitra Pradarshasala, Calcutta 1997 Recent Sculptures in Terracotta and Bronze, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1999 Retrospective, A Few Souvenirs of The Time Was, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata