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

Born: 18 October 1918, Dacca, present-day Bangladesh Died: 22 October 2008, Kolkata Education 1936-40 Government College of Arts & Crafts, Madras (Studied under D.P. Roy Chowdhury and his contemporaries were Gopal Ghose, Prodosh Dasgupta and K.C.S. Panicker) 1949-54 Andre Lhote’s School, Academie Grand Chaumier, École des Beaux-Arts (Mural Painting) and at L’Ecole du Louvre (History of Painting), Paris Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1940 Art Teacher, the Daly College, Indore 1942-3 Founder Member, Calcutta Group 1954-55 Taught Art at the Daly College, Indore Art Teacher, Neterhat Vidyalaya, Bihar 1956-79 Staff Member (Design and Layout), Regional Institute of Printing Technology, Jadavpur, Calcutta 1962-63 Visited France on a French Fellowship Commissioned by the French Government to design Bengali typography based on the script of Rabindranath Tagore 1970-71 Visited U.S.A. on a Rockefeller Grant 1979 Invited by the Indo- Soviet Friendship Association for exhibition of his works at Moscow 1981-12 Visiting Professor and Artist-in- residence, Contemporary Indian Art, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, U.S.A. (Invited by the U.S. Sub-Commission on Culture & Education) 1983-87 Artist-in-residence, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (Portfolio of his autobiographical short stories in English, illustrated by him, published by the Institute) Contributed numerous articles to journals on problems of contemporary art Has published three books in Bengali Select Awards and Honours 1962 Documentary film on his works made by the West Bengal Government 1969-70 French Fellowship for designing typeface 1970-11 John D Rockefeller III grant 1979 Invited by the Indo-Soviet Friendship Association to exhibit his works in Moscow Paritosh Sen 1985 Asian Paints Award 1986 Elected Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1986 Member, General Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Member, Executive Council, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan Commissioner, Indian Section of Havana Biennale II, Cuba Invited to speak on ‘Indian Contemporary Painting’ at Loomis Chaffee School by Allan Lundie Wise Lecture Fund, Windsor, USA 1988 ‘One Day in the Life of a Celebrity’, A Documentary on Paritosh Sen made by Doordarshan, Calcutta 1989 Abanindra Puraskar for painting, Government of West Bengal 1991 Conferred Honorary Doctorate of Literature, University of Burdwan, West Bengal 1995 West Bengal State Lalit Kala Prize for Achievement in Art 1996 Kalidas Nag Award 1997 The English Speaking Union Outstanding Citizen Award 1998 Hirachand Dugar Award Smt. Bijoya Chakraborty Smriti Puraskar, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta 1999 Aban-Gagan Puraskar, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 Sen’s exhibition of paintings in Brussels was the first by an Indian painter and proved to be a sell-out 1965 Gallery Chemould, Calcutta 1967 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1968 Exhibited series marked by a new intensity and strength where the figure was no longer defined. Also his portraits, among them those of Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan, marked a high point in his career 1973 Calcutta, Bombay Paintings, Gallery Sanskriti, New Delhi 1989 Self Portraits, The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1990 Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay 1991 Instant Images, The Village Gallery, New Delhi 1992 Acrylics as Water Colours, The Village Gallery, New Delhi 2001 Mini Retrospective Show, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata 2002 Retrospective exhibition of paintings, Art world, Chennai Retrospective exhibition of paintings, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai Select Group Shows 1961 with Tyeb Mehta, London 1966 The Commonwealth Arts Festival, Sao Paulo Biennale, and Asahi Shimbun exhibition of Art, Tokyo 1972 Four Indian Painters, Pittsburgh, USA 1986 Second Biennale, Cuba