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

Creative India BENGAL | Terms & Conditions 323 322 Born: 18 September 1867, Calcutta, West Bengal Died: 14 February 1938, Calcutta, West Bengal Education Self-taught Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1905 Hosts the founding meeting of the Bengal Arts Council 1907 Founder Member, The Indian Society of Oriental Art (ISOA) 1910 Collection of Indian miniatures (exhibited with the ISOA) 1912 Illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore’s Jivansmriti 1915 Takes responsibility for running the training institute of the Indian Society of Oriental Art upon its foundation 1916–8 Published Virupa Vajra (Play of Opposites) and Advoot Lok (Realm of the Absurd), two volumes of caricatures Published Nava Hullor (Reform screams), a third volume of caricatures, with Thacker Spinks Published Bhodor Bahadue (Otter the Great) – the only literary work in Bengali left behind by the artist Select Awards and Honours Deemed National Art Treasure, Government of India Select Exhibitions 1908 Inaugural Exhibition: ISOA, Calcutta (Also 1910 & 1912) 1909 ISOA Exhibition, Simla 1911 ISOA’s United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, England (Organised by ISOA for George V’s Coronation) 1914 22nd Exhibition of Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris travelled to Belgium, Holland & Imperial Institute, England 1915-6 ISOA, Calcutta &Young Men’s Indian Association, Madras 1915 ISOA, Madras 1923 Berlin and Hamburg, Germany 1924 Travelling Exhibition, USA (Organised by American Federation of Art & Indian Society of Oriental Art) 1928 Athenee Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 1967 Gaganendranath’s Centenary Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1976 Advoot Lok, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1979,87 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1997 The Intuitive Logic: A Festival of Indian Contemporary Painting, NGMA, Bombay Gaganendranath Tagore Born: 1861, Calcutta, West Bengal Died: 1941, Calcutta Education Self-Taught Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1921 Founder, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan Selected Awards and Honours 1913 Conferred Nobel Prize for Literature 1940 Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Oxford University Given the sobriquet ‘Gurudev’ by Mahatma Gandhi Deemed National Art Treasure, Government of India Select Solo Exhibitions 1930 First Travelling Exhibition - Galerie Pigalle, Paris; City Art Gallery, Birmingham, & India Society, London, UK; Moeller’s Gallery, Berlin, Art Club of Saxony, Dresden & Gallery Caspari, Munich, Germany; Charlottenburg Picture Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Geneva; State Moscow Museum of NewWestern Art, Moscow; Doll & Richards Gallery & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and 56th Street Galleries, NewYork, USA 1931 The Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, USA 1932 Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata 1934 Congress House, Madras 1938 Calmann Gallery, London 1939 Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, New Delhi 1943 Tagore Society, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan (Also 1945, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952 & 1969) 1950 Allahabad University, Allahabad 1953 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1955 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (Also 1957) 1961 Tagore Centenary Exhibition, Calcutta Swiss National Library, Switzerland Colombo Art Gallery, Sri Lanka 1965 NGMA, New Delhi 1967 Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata 1973 Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (Also 1975, 1976, 1977 & 1979) 1986-7 Travelling Exhibition - Barbican Gallery, London; Corner House, Manchester; The Third Eye, Glasgow & Cartwright Hall, Bedford; and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Rabindranath Tagore