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

228 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Education Mostly, self taught. Trained for a year at the Indore School of Art, under the tutelage of D.O. Deolalikar and guidance of senior student N.S. Bendre and trained briefly at Sir. J.J. School of Art, Bombay (now Mumbai). Formal academic and art education left incomplete. Select Teaching and Infrastructure Building Activities 1937 Settles in Bombay (now Mumbai) and starts as a painter of Cinema billboards 1941-42 Takes up job at Fantasy furniture shop and starts designing nursery furniture and wooden toys 1948 Joined the Progressive Artists’ Group, Bombay (now Mumbai) 1952 Part of a 60 member delegation from India to the World Peace Conference, China 1953 Visits Europe for the first time 1957 Murals for Air India International in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Zurich, Prague 1959 First visit to United States of America 1963 Mural, World Health Organization, New Delhi; Mural in Mosaic for Aligarh University; Nominated to the Rajya Sabha 1964 Kali Pundole of Pundole Art Gallery buys Husain’s ‘Ganesh Darwaza’ (painting ) 1967 Mural, General Education Centre, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pardesh, India 1988 Participated in a fund raising programme for the Bombay Art Society with Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Tata Theatre, Bombay (now Mumbai) 1990’s Established Sankalana Museum, Bangalore (now Bengaluru), on land allotted by the then Chief Minister of Karnataka, Ramakrishna Hegde 1991 Express Fund raiser for victims of the Garhwal earthquake 1992 Established his own gallery, Husain ki Sarai in Faridabad 1995 Started the Husain-Doshi Gufa in Ahmedabad 2001 Associated with RABO India Finance Pvt. Ltd., to encourage associations between art and banking Select Awards and Honours 1947 The Potters, Bombay Art Society, Bombay (now Mumbai), India 1954 Nominated Eminent Artist Member, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India Won international recognition at the Venice Biennale 1955 Zameen, awarded First Prize at the National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India International Biennale Award, Tokyo, Japan 1959 International Biennale Award, Tokyo, Japan 1966 Padmashree, Government of India 1967 Awarded Golden Bear for Film Through the Eyes of a Painter, International Berlin Film Festival; Film purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.; A book on Husain brought out by Harry Abrams, the New York Publisher 1968 National Award for the Best Experimental Film, Through the Eyes of a Painter 1973 Padma Bhushan, Government of India 1989 Padma Vibhushan, Government of India 1996 Felicitation as Chief Guest, celebrating Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni’s 50 years as an art critic, at the Jehangir Art Gallery auditorium, Mumbai, India 1997 Awarded Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar for Lifetime Achievement 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India (9 August) Husain, an exhibition of Graphic Prints in Honor of M S Subbalakshmi, Lakshana Museum of Fine Art, Chennai, India 2007 Announcement of Raja Ravi Varma award, Government of Kerala Honorary Doctorate, Benaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi Honorary Doctorate, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi Honorary Doctorate, Mysore University, Mysore (now Mysuru), Karnataka, India Select Solo Exhibitions 1950 Bombay Art Society, Bombay (now Mumbai), India 1955 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India 1956 Gallery Palette, Zurich, Switzerland Gallery Mannes, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1960 Gallery Palse, Rome, Italy Kunst Kabinet, Frankfurt, organised by Henna Bekkar von Rath and Kumar Gallery, West Germany 1961 Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India Chemould Presscot Road, Bombay (now Mumbai), India Gallery Palse, Rome, Italy Tokyo, Japan 1962 Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi, India Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India 1964 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, India India House, New York, U.S.A. 1965 Drawings - The Arab Image, Chemould Presscot Road, Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (now Kolkata), New Delhi, India 1965 Gallery Wasity, Baghdad, Iraq; Kabul, Afghanistan 1966 Bombay (now Mumbai), India New Delhi, India 1967 New York, Poland and Czechoslovakia Dhoomimal Gallery and Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 1968 Images of Kerala, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai) Six Days of Making: Movements and Moods in Paintings, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India (27 December - 1 January 1969) 1969 Dhoomimal Gallery and Gita Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 1969-71 21 Years of Painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai), organised by Chemould Gallery, Bombay 1969-71 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai), India (March) Gallery Chanakya, New Delhi, India (July) Gallery du Grand Meselles, Geneva, Switzerland 1971 Ashoka Hotel Gallery, New Delhi, organised by Gallery Chanakya and Pundole Art Gallery, India 1972 Paintings 1971, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai) 1973 Retrospective, Birla Academy of Art and Culture,Calcutta (now Kolkata), India Espace Cardin, Paris, France 1974 Commonwealth Art Centre, London, U.K. Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia Paintings by Husain, Worcester Art Museum, U.S.A. 1975 Maqbool Fida Husain, Sarala Art Centre, Kolkata (now Chennai), India (2-14 February) 1978 Sufi Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai), India Ragmala Paintings, Centaur Hotel Lawns, Bombay (now Mumbai) Portrait of an Umbrella, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, India Retrospective, Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, organised by Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai) 1979 Husain in Malaysia, The Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, organised by Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai), India 1980 Mother and Child: A Tribute to Mother Teresa, Calcutta Art Gallery, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India 1981 Les Otages - Mere Theresa, Galerie Jourdan, Montreal, Canada Culture of the Streets, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India 1982 Culture of the Streets, Pundole Art Gallery, Bomba (now Mumbai), India 1983 Story of a Brush, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (now Mumbai) 1986 Kala Yatra, Bangalore (now Bengaluru), India Images of the Raj, Sista’s Art Gallery, Bangalore (now Bengaluru) 1988 Husain, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A. 1989 Calcutta 300, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 1990 Installations, Theatre of the Absurd, New Delhi, India 1991 Installations, Shwetambari (White is super abundance), Bombay (now Mumbai), India M.F. Husain 1913-2011