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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 311 310 Born: 11 June 1937, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Began sketching and doodling right from his childhood 1955 Joined Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta 1959 Graduated with Diploma (Drawing & Painting) Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Early 1960s Worked part time creating sketches for animated films made at Mandar Mullick’s studio 1963 Became a member of the newly formed Society of Contemporary Artists 1963-80 Regularly participated in the annual exhibition of the Society till 1980s Select Awards and Honours 1955 Government College of Art and Craft Award, Calcutta 1956 Calcutta Art Society Award, Calcutta 1978 Artist of the Year, Sangeet Shyamala, Calcutta 1998 Gagan-Aban Puraskar, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 2003 D. Litt. (Honoris Causa), Kalyani University 2004 Abanindra Puraskar, Government of West Bengal 2008 Life Time Achievement Award, Star Ananda, Kolkata 2009 D.Litt (Honarary), Netaji Subhash Open University, Kolkata 2011 Raja Ravi Varma Award from the Kerala Government Select Solo Exhibitions 1990 Jottings (Preliminary Drawings for Paintings), The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1992 Drawings, Le Gallery and Kerala Kala Peetom, Cochin Jottings, The Gallery, Kochi 1993-94 Water Colours, The Village Art Gallery, New Delhi 1996 Jottings in Mixed Media, The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1998 Ganesh Pyne : A Retrospective 1952-1998, Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta (April) The Window, Mumbai 1998 Ganesh Pyne: Whispers of Myth, The Window, Mumbai 2000 Drawings on Mahabharata 1967 to 1987, NGMA, Mumbai 2001 Recent Works, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2005 Ganesh Pyne: A Pilgrim in the Dominion of Shadows, Museum Gallery (organised by Galerie 88), Mumbai 2006 An Enchanted Space: The Private World of Ganesh Pyne’, Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata Ganesh Pyne 2010 His Mahabharata, CIMA, Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1957 Commemorative Exhibition 1957, First Indian Struggle for Independence, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1961 Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore, Kolkata 1968 World Youth Festival, Prague 1969 Indian Painters ‘69’, Calcutta 1970 Exhibition in aid of Menuhin School of Music, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1972 25 Years of Indian Art, New Delhi 1975 Contemporary Indian Paintings, Germany 1980 Indian Painting Today, Mumbai 1982 Modern Indian Paintings, organised by NGMA, Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C 1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1982 Indische Kunst Heute, Darmstadt, Germany 1986 Indische Kunst Heute, Darmstadt, Germany 1986 Visions, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta 1988 Gallery 88, Calcutta 1989 Timeless Art, The Times of India Sesquicentennial, Mumbai 1989 Gallery 88, Calcutta 1993 Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Reflections and Images, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Wounds, CIMA, Calcutta Wounds, NGMA, New Delhi Trends and Images, CIMA, Calcutta 1995 The Tree of my Life, The Village Gallery, New Delhi Fantasy, Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta 1996 Chamatkara - Myth and Magic in Indian Art, Whitley’s Art Gallery, London 1997 Tryst with Destiny - Art from Modern India, organised by Centre for International Modern Art, Calcutta and singapore Image-Beyond Image, Contemporary Indian Painting from the collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, exhibited at the NGMA, New Delhi; Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta; Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore; NGMA, Mumbai 2000 Shatabadi, CIMA, Calcutta 2001 Art of Bengal Past and Present, organised by CIMA, Calcutta at NGMA, Mumbai and 2002 Brahma to Bapu - Icons and Symbols in Indian Art, organised by CIMA, Calcutta at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 2003 Art of Bengal - AVision Defined, CIMA, Calcutta; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2004 Face-to-Face - 19th Century to Contemporary Portraiture, CIMA, Calcutta 2008 Freedom 2008: Sixty Years After Indian Independence, CIMA, Kolkata 2009 Progressive to Alter modern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London 2010 Symbols and Metaphors, CIMA, Calcutta Paper Trails, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi