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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 315 314 Born: 5 March 1905, Dhaka, present-day Bangladesh Died: 2 September 1972, New Delhi Education 1924 Passed Entrance Examination (First Division), Narayanganj School 1925 Joined Government School of Art, Calcutta under the principal-ship of Percy Brown and studied painting under J.P. Gangooly Graduated from Government School of Art, Calcutta Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities Director of Public Instruction’s Scholarship awarded by the Principal, Government College of Arts & Craft 1931 Founder member of ‘Art Rebel Center’ along with Kalikinkar Ghosh Dastidar, Gobardhan Ash, Bhola Chattopadhyay and others 1932 Founder Member, The Young Artists’ Union and later Art Rebel Centre, Calcutta 1933 Assistant Secretary, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1948 Art Teacher, Raisina High School and Sarada Ukil School of Art, New Delhi 1948-65 Art Teacher at Raisina Bengali Higher Secondary School, New Delhi Select Awards and Honours Awarded Govt. Scholarship, Government School of Art, Calcutta 1928-29 First Prize, Annual Exhibition, Nainital Art Club, Nainital 1933-34 First Prize, Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1945-47 First Prize, Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Bombay 1949 Awarded Governor Generals Silver Plaque, 18th Annual All India Art Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Abani Sen Select Solo Exhibitions 1943 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Lucknow 1946 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Calcutta 1950 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Simla 1951 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Calcutta 1960 Calcutta 1970 Alberta, Canada 1971 Calgary, Canada 1978 Abani Sen: Drawings, Watercolours, and Tempera Paintings from Bengal, India - from 1925 to 1972 - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia 2008 Retrospective, Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata Select Group Exhibitions 1948 17th Annual Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1952 Exhibition organised by Academy of Fine Arts, USA Exhibition, Cairo, Istanbul, Ankara and Baghdad 1953 Exhibition, Russia, Poland and West Germany 1954 All India Art Exhibition organised by All India Peace Council 1955 Silver Jubilee Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi 1956 All India Exhibition of Works of Art and Photographs of Wildlife, New Delhi 1958 Exhibition, Bulgaria 1961 Exhibition, Cuba and NewYork 1972 Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia 1994 Art and Its Language: Selections from the Permanent Collection - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 1995 Old Masters, Taj Palace Intercontinental, New Delhi 1998 Famed Yesteryears and Contemporary Indian Artists 1857- 1997 WWF and Art Konsult, New Delhi 2002 Exhibition - Galerie 88, Kolkata 2003 Worlds of Wonder - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia