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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 307 306 Born: 1933, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1950-57 Artistic apprenticeship with Dilip Das Gupta in his studio 1968 Studied art on a Fellowship for a year in France Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1953 Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta 1961 Founder Member, Society of Contemporary Artists 1964 Founder Member, Calcutta Painters 1964-65 Worked in Nirode Mazumdar’s studio, Calcutta 1969-70 French Govt. Scholarship to study Museums of Art in France 1971 Selected as Vice-President, Prayag Kala Samiti Founder Member, Calcutta Art Fair Select Awards and Honours 1966 The Passion Gropes, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi 1968 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1969-70 Additional grant for extensive travel in Western Europe 1970 Rabindra Bharati University Award, Calcutta 1976 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Special Award, Maha Koshla Kala Parishad, Raipur 1996 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1999 Abanindra Puraskar, Government of West Bengal Select Solo Exhibitions 1955 Calcutta 1959 Pavement Show, Calcutta Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1960 Calcutta 1962-64 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1967 Calcutta 1970 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1976 All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1984 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi 1988 Gallery BF/ 14, Calcutta 1989 Galerie 88, Calcutta 1992 Gandhara Art Gallery, Calcutta 1993 Calcutta L.T.G. Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Calcutta 2002 Prokash Karmakar: Recent Works, Galerie 88, Kolkata Prokash Karmakar Born: 1956, Paris, France Education 1976-81 B.A Fine Arts (Painting) Government College of Arts & Crafts, Calcutta with a First Class First in Painting Studied painting at École Des Beaux-Arts 1983 Studied Painting & Printmaking at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1992 Attended the art camp Confluence, organised by Alliance Française at BAAC, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1980 Governor’s Gold Medal, Calcutta 1982 West Bengal State Academy Award, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1985 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (FS) 1987 Recent Works, Birla Academy of Art & Culture 1989 Recent Works, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1991 Victoria Memorial Durbar Hall and Sukh Sagar, Calcutta 1994 Recent Works: Travelling Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Vadehra and Sakshi, Madras 1997 Bose Pacia Modern, NewYork Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 2005-6 Panting by Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Bodhi Art, New Delhi Select Group Exhibitions 1984-8 Salon d’Automne, Paris, France 1988 Exhibition for the African National Congress on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s 70th Birthday, Calcutta Information Centre, Calcutta 1989 Exhibition on the theme of Human Rights by artists from Bengal, organised by Alliance Française Calcutta; BAAC, Calcutta 1990 Calcutta Tercentenary Exhibition, BAAC, Calcutta 1993 Wounds, organised by CIMA, Calcutta Shraddha, Bombay Trends and Images, CIMA, Calcutta Chittrovanu Mazumdar