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

Born : 1 March 1935, Kolkata , West Bengal Education 1950-55 Diploma in Painting, Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta Teacher, Calcutta Boys’ School Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1950s Dilip Dasgupta’s Studio 1953-59 Founder Member & Secretary, Artists Circle, Calcutta 1960-74 Founder Member & Secretary, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1961 Founder Member & Secretary, First Calcutta Art Fair 1972-73 Innovator, Wood Intaglio 1974-76 Teacher, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan 1975-76 Innovator, engravings on sun mica 1976-89 Head, Graphic Arts Faculty, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan 1976 Seminar on Art Education, Lalit Kala Akademi, Calcutta 1977 U.G.C. All India Seminar on Art Education at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan Proposer and Co-ordinator, First All India Artists Camp, Garhi Studios, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1978 Demonstration lecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Member of Jury, All India Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi (Also 1992 & ‘98) 1981 Seminar on the Evolution of Printmaking in India, Lalit Kala Akademi &Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 1985 Demonstration lecture, College of Fine Arts, Kerala University Innovator, Cardboard Intaglio 1986 Member of Jury, National Exhibition of Art 1988 Member of Jury, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, All India Exhibition, Manipur 1989-91 Principal, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan Select Awards and Honours 1973 Award, All India Fine Arts Exhibition, New Delhi 1978 Member of the jury, All India Exhibition, BAAC, Calcutta 1984 Award, International Print Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1986 Member of the Jury, National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1988 Member of the Jury, All India Exhibition, Manipur Sanat Kar 1992 Member of the Jury, All India Exhibition, BAAC, Calcutta 1993 West Bengal State Lalit Kala Akademi Award, Calcutta 1996 Siromani Puraskar, Government of India, New Delhi 1997 Kala Vibhushan - National title Award, Government of India, New Delhi 1998 Member of the Jury, All India Exhibition, BAAC, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1962 Prints Art Gallery, Calcutta 1967 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta 1969 Triveni Gallery, New Delhi 1975 Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1980 Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1984 Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi Exhibition of Graphics, Galerie 88, Calcutta 1985 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay Camlin Gallery, Bombay Sarala Art Gallery, Madras 1988 Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Festival of India, Japan Kala Yatra Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore 1989 Tempera on Paper & Graphics, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1990 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta 1991 Tempera on Paper and Graphics, Pundole Art Gallery 1992 Exhibition of Paintings by Sanat Kar, Sanskriti Art Gallery, Calcutta Exhibition of Paintings by Sanat Kar, VAG 1994 An Exhibition of Graphics by Sanat Kar, Galerie 88, Calcutta 2000 Temperas - Sanat Kar, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata 2002 Sanat Kar: A Retrospective of Bronzes and Prints, BAAC, Kolkata 2003 Bronzes, Gouaches, Prints - Sanat Kar, organised by BAAC, Mumbai Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai 2006 Prints, Drawings, Paintings by Sanat Kar, JAG, Mumbai Habitat Centre, New Delhi & Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi Select Group Exhibitions 1961-95 Society of Contemporary Artists, Annual Exhibitions, Calcutta 1969 Group 8: First All India Graphics Arts Exhibition, New Delhi Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan 1983 India in Print, Koninklijk Institute Vorde, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1984 Third World Prints, British Biennale, London, UK 25 Years of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Festival of India in USA, USSR & Japan 1985 Fourth International Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms, Poland Indian Printmaking Today, JAG, Bombay Male Formy Grafiki, Bombay 1987 Eight Contemporary Artists, BAAC, Calcutta 1988 Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Festival of India, Japan