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

Born: 19 September 1894, Kishoregunj, present-day Bangladesh Died: 22 July 1948, Calcutta, West Bengal Education 1910-12 Government College of Arts & Craft, Calcutta (dropped out before completing the course protesting the non- acknowledgment of his contribution to the creation of the triumphal arch welcoming George V to Calcutta) Jubilee Art School, North Calcutta (run by Ranade Gupta) Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1928 Published the Indian Masters series, which contained reproductions of paintings by the leading artists of the day, including Raja Ravi Varma 1931 Court Painter, Kingdom of Kashmir 1932 Court Painter, Princely State of Patiala Also produced paintings for the Princely States of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner 1933 Established Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, at his residence at 24 Beadon Street, which was later joined by Jamini Roy, Atul Bose, Bhawani Charan Laha, Satish Sinha and Jogesh Seal Select Awards and Honours 1920 First Prize, Madras Art Exhibition 1921 Smriti (Recollections), Gold Medal, BAS, Bombay First Prize, Madras Art Exhibition 1922-23 Gold Medals, BAS, Bombay 1931 Court Painter, Princely State of Kashmir & Patiala 1948 All India Exhibition, Calcutta Select Group Exhibitions 1920 Madras Art Exhibition, Madras 1921 BAS, Bombay All India Show, Calcutta Madras Art Exhibition, Madras 1922 BAS, Bombay 1923 BAS, Bombay Hemendranath Mazumdar Born: 11 May 1916, Calcutta Died: 26 September 1982, Calcutta Education 1929-35 Diploma in Art, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta (studied under Abanindranath Tagore) 1946-47 Studied at the L’Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France 1949 Studied Engraving in Utrecht, The Netherlands Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Founder Member, Calcutta Group, Calcutta Select Awards and Honours 1939 Norman Blount Memorial Medal, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta 1946 One year scholarship granted by the French Government, extended for another year by the Bureau d’Accueil des Etudiants Etrangers 1970 Elected, eminent Artist, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1946 Calcutta (FS) 1949 Galerie Barbizon, Paris, France (Cu. Stanislaus Fumet) 1957 Images Ecloses, Paris, France 1958 Images Ecloses, Calcutta 1961 Wing of No End, Calcutta 1962 Ten Years of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1963 Visual Hymn, Bombay 1965 Nine Variations on Symbolic Nine, Calcutta 1967 Shodasi Kala, Calcutta 1968 Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Nirode Mazumdar, Alliance Française, New Delhi 1972 Nirode Mazumdar - Nityakala An Aesthetic Approach to Lunar Symbolism, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1974 Boitoroni - Nirode Mazumdar - An Exhibition of Paintings, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1981 Nirode Mazumdar Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings 1950-81, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Select Group Exhibitions 1949 École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1951 Indian High Commission, London, UK 1969 First Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1970 Tokyo, Japan 1971 Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Nirode Mazumdar