Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts and Books | April 2017

212 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Education Self Taught 1940-41 Certificate Foundation Course, Ketkar Institute of Art, Girgaum, Mumbai, India 1961 Visited France as guest of French Government, sponsored by Lalit Kala Akademi 1961 Visited Bulgaria as an Exchange Artist, Invited by the Bulgarian Artists Association Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1947 Founder member, Progressive Artists Group, Mumbai, India 1952 Founder member, Artists Centre, Mumbai, India Managing Committee Member, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India 1984 Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India Selection & Judging Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India Select Awards and Honours 1938-39 Bombay Art Society’s Annual Prize, Mumbai, India 1941-42 Bombay Art Society’s Annual Prize, Mumbai, India 1944 Governor’s Prize for the painting ‘The Great Maratha Battle’, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India 1946 Sir Henry Knight Prize 1948 UNESCO International Exhibition Prize 1952 Gold Medal for the painting Two Jugs, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India Select Solo Exhibitions 1942 Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India 1944 Chetna Restaurant, Organised by Kekoo Gandhi, Mumbai, India 1950 Still Life, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1954, 60 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1962 Nude Show, Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1963 Black Nude Series, Pundole Art Gallery Inaugural Show, Mumbai, India Poem on Canvas, Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1964 Jashn E Ara, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India 1966 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1973 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1978 Artists Aid Centre, Mumbai, India A Tribute to Krishnaji Hawlaji Ara, CMC Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Select Group Exhibitions 1948 Inaugural Exhibition Progressive Artist’s Group, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India Progressive Artists Group: First Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India (July). Exhibition was opened by Dr Mulk Raj Anand 1949-55 Progressive Artist’s Group, Exhibitions in Vadodara, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, India 1950 Progressive Artists Group Exhibition Jointly with Calcutta Group, Kolkata, India 1963 Exhibition in aid of the National Defense Fund, Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India 1996 The Moderns, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Inaugural Show, Mumbai, India 1997 Intuitive logic: I Exhibition-Auction Modem & Contemporary Indian Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, Sculpture & Tapestry, organized by HEART, New Delhi & Mumbai, India 1997 Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2000-01 The Millennium Show: A Century of Art from Maharashtra Part II, Organised by Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (30 December - 13 January) 2001 Changing Images: An Exhibition of 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2002 A Historical Epic: India in the Making 1757-1950, Curated Exhibition-Auction by Neville Tuli, Osian’s, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India (19 - 27 July) 2002 A Historical Epic: India in the Making 1757-1950, Curated Exhibition-Auction by Neville Tuli, Osian’s, Art Today, New Delhi, India (1 - 8 August) 2003 Manifestations, Presented by Delhi Art Gallery, at World Trade Centre, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India The Said & The Unsaid: Unravelling Modern Indian Art Practices, Presented by The Committee of The Jehangir Art Gallery & Apparao Galleries, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (21 - 28 January) 2004 The Underlying Spirit, The Inaugural Exhibition from the Osian’s Archive Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (9 - 18 November) Manifestations II, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Manifestations II, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2005 Revisualising India, From The Osian’s Archive & Library Collection, Rabindra Bhavan Galleries, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India (16 August - 2 September) Manifestations III, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery, at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India Manifestations III, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery, at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2007 An Historical Epic: India in the Making: Part I, From The Osian’s Archive Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (14 - 23 March) An Historical Epic: India in the Making: Part II, From The Osian’s Archive Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (19 - 26 July) Still Life, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2009 Jashn Osianama: 500 Years of Violence Non-Violence, From The Osian’s Archive & Library Collection, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (20 June - 2 July) Jashn Osianama: 500 Years of Violence Non-Violence, From The Osian’s Archive & Library Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (4 - 21 July) Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. 2010 Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition, Rob Dean Art, London, U.K., in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India The Progressives & Associates, Grosvenor Gallery, London, U.K. 2011 Continuum, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Time Unfolded, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Watermark II, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India Ethos V: Indian Art through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore 2012 Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Presented by Sakshi Gallery, at The Park, Chennai, India Manifestations VII: Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Manifestations VIII: 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2013 Manifestations IX: 75 Artists 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Mumbai Moder: Progressive Artists Group 1947-2013, Delhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 2014 Manifestations XI: 75 Artists 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, Mumbai & New Delhi, India The Moderns: 20th Century Art, Delhi Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India K.H. Ara 1914-1985