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

Born: 5 November 1939, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Education 1951 Studied under Mukund Shroff, Ahmedabad 1957-58 Studied art at the C N Kala Vidyalaya, under Rasiklal Parikh, Ahmedabad 1959-62 Diploma (Drawing & Painting), Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay Shankar B. Palsikar, was his professor at the J.J. School of Art Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Started as a stage actor in Bombay under the renowned Gujarati theatre director, Tarak Mehta and designed stage- sets in Ahmedabad He designed the sets for two plays by Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Mukta Dhara’ and ‘Chitrangada’, and also acted in the former 1963-5 Worked as Art Designer, Weavers’ Service Centre, Bombay, 1965-74 Worked as Design Consultant for the Handicraft & Handloom Export Corporation of India, New Delhi 1965 Member, Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta 1976 Visited Paris, Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam and Frankfurt as a Design Consultant 1980 Leader of the Indian delegation at the Exhibition of Indian Handicrafts, Ulan Bator, Mongolia Select Awards and Honours 1972 President of India’s Silver Plaque and cash award for best paintings of the year, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society 1974 President of India’s Silver Plaque, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1982 Eclipse Two, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1987 Commissioner to ‘Six Young Contemporary Artists’ Festival of India, Stockholm 1992 Padma Shri, Government of India 1993 Member, General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1999 Member of Jury, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2000 Part of Advisory Committee of NGMA, New Delhi 2007 A collection of writings on his work, Manu Parekh: Banaras, Eternity Watches Time, published by Mapin/ Lund Humphries Manu Parekh Select Solo Exhibitions 1967 Graphics & Paintings, Everest Gallery, Calcutta 1970 Paintings, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay 1974 Paintings, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1975,81 Paintings, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1988 Paintings, Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta 1989 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay 1990 Bhagalpur Blinding, Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay (Organised with Times of India) 1991 Small Drawings, Sophia Duchesne Art Gallery, Bombay Banaras Landscape, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1992 Without Within, Seagull, Calcutta Vadehra Art Gallery & Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1993 Reflections & Images, VAG, New Delhi and JAG, Bombay Manu Parekh ’93, ABC Academy, Varanasi 1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1995 Paintings 1993-5, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1996 Bose-Pacia Modern, NewYork 1997 A.R.K.S Gallery, London 1998 Ritual Oblations, Recent Works, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1999 Ritual Oblations, Recent Works, Rabindra Bhavan 2003 Portrait of Flowers, Landscape of River, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2004 Benaras, Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi 2006 Berkeley Square Gallery, London Select Group Exhibitions 1964 Exhibited his paintings for the first time, in a group show organised at the Artists Aid Centre, established by K.H. Ara, a founder member of the Progressive Artists Group, at Rampart Row in Mumbai’s colonial quarter, Kala Ghoda 1964-85 Thirty group shows in India and abroad 1978 3rd International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1978 4th International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1981 5th International Triennale, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1982 Modern Indian Painting, NGMA, Hirschorn Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1982 Seven Indian Artists, Travelling Exhibition in Worpswede Hamburg, Hanover, Brauschweig, Bayeuth 1993 Opening Show, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata 1993 Vadehra Art Gallery, Husain Ki Sarai, New Delhi 1993 Wounds, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata and NGMA, New Delhi 1995 Postcards for Gandhi, Sahmat 1996 Contemporary Indian Painters associated with Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1997 Kali, exhibition in Topical Museum, Amsterdam 1997 Intuitive Logic, HEART, New Delhi and Mumbai 1997 Major Trends of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1997 Fifty Years of Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery, organised by NGMA, New Delhi 1997 Colours of Independence, organised by CIMA, Kolkata 1998 Opening Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1999 As You Like It, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2001 Works on Paper, Bose Pacia Modem, NewYork 2001 Eight Artists from Bengal, Indian Embassy, Berlin 2004 Group Exhibition at Nature Morte, New Delhi