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

250 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Education 1930-40 Schooling at Harcourt Butler School, New Delhi, India 1944-45 Enrolled at Sarada Ukil Art School (Evening class), New Delhi, India (Taught by Sailoz Mookherjea) M.A. in Economics, St. Stephens College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India 1949-50 Studied Painting, Under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger, Paris, France Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1945-46 His stories published by magazines Hans and Prateek. Produced four collections of short stories, wo novels, a book of travelogues and reminiscences and wrote numerous articles and essays in popular magazines. 1948 Journalism Trainee, Hindi daily ‘Hindustan’ 1968 Attended Documenta in Kassel as part of a delegation of Indian artists 1970 J.D. Rockerfeller III Fellowship, New York, U.S.A. 1971 Organised-curated a travelling exhibition of ‘Ten Indian Artists’ to U.S.A. Select Awards and Honours 1956 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India 1958 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India 1959 Honourable mention, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 1972 Padmashree, Government of India Prem Chand Puraskar, Award for Meri Priya Kahaniyan, a collection of short stories in Hindi, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India 1986 Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh (M. F. Husain presented the award to Ramkumar) 2003 Officer Arts et Lettres, Government of France 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India (09 August) Select Solo Exhibitions 1949 First One Person exhibition of Paintings at YMCA Hall, Simla, India (General Cariappa Inaugurated the exhibition) Town Hall, New Delhi, India 1950 One Person Exhibition at Gallery Barbizon, Paris, France 1953 Alliance Francaise, Mumbai, India 1954 Exhibition of Paintings, Inaugurated by Renowned Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi, New Delhi, India 1955 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1956 Exhibition of Paintings, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1957 Exhibition of Paintings, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India 1958 Exhibition of Paintings, Krakow and Warsaw, Poland 1959 Exhibition of Paintings, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India 1960 Wax and Ink Works on Paper, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India Exhibition of Paintings, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India 1963 Exhibition of Paintings, Kunika Art Centre, New Delhi, India 1964 Exhibition of Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India 1965 Exhibition of Paintings,Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi 1966 Exhibition of Paintings, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (October) Exhibition of Paintings, Grosvner Gallery, London, U.K. 1968 Exhibition of Paintings, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 1969 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (10 - 25 February) 1971 Exhibition of Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1973 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India 1974 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (31 October - 19 November) 1976 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1977 Exhibition of Paintings, Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, India 1978 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1979 Solo exhibition of Paintings, Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi, India (05 - 20 March) 1980 Recent Paintings & Earlier Drawings, Art Heritage, New Delhi Retrospective exhibition of works from 1953-80, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, India Exhibition of Paintings in Lima, Peru 1981 Works on Paper, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1982 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (10 - 22 January) 1983 Exhibition of works on paper, Miskole, Hungary Exhibition of paintings, Sarala Art Centre, Chennai, India 1984 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1985 Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India 1986 Retrospective exhibition of works from 1953-86, Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India Retrospective Exhibition, Organised by Pundole Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai, India 1988 Exhibition of works on paper, Presented by Alliance Francaise at Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi, India (17 - 26 October) Exhibition of Paintings, Presented by Kala Yatra, Sista’s Art Gallery, Bengaluru, India (02 January) 1990 Exhibition of Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Exhibition of works on paper, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India 1991 Recent Paintings and Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata, India (20 February - 05 March) Ramkumar: Sketches, Presented by Shri Jubilee Nagari Bhandar Trust Premises, Rajmata Sudarshana Kumari Kala Deegha, Bikaner, India (13 - 20 October) 1992 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (15 January - 15 February) Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (11 - 30 May) 1993 Ramkumar, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (08 - 27 February) Ramkumar a Retrospective, Organised by Vadehra Art Gallery at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India (20 November - 12 December) Retrospective exhibition of works from 1949-93, Organised by Vadehra Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1994 Retrospective exhibition of works from 1949-94, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India Retrospective, Organised by Vadehra Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (15 - 22 February) 1996 Pages from a Sketch Book, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (16 January - 03 February) Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (24 - 29 September) 1997 Recent Works by Ramkumar, Arks Gallery, London, U.K. (05 - 28 October) Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, India 1998 A Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (06 - 30 June) Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (03 - 30 May) 2000 Recent Works by Ramkumar, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (06 - 26 January) 2001 Recent Works by Ramkumar, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (17 February - 12 March) 2002 Recent Works by Ramkumar, Organised by Saffronart at Pundole Art Gallery Mumbai, India (19 - 24 May) 2003 Ramkumar, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (13 November - 16 December) 2005 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (06 - 28 May) 2006 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2007 Recent Works, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, U.K. Reflective Landscapes, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2008 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (23 January - 15 February) Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (02 - 09 February) 2009 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (22 January - 14 February) 2010 Ramkumar: A Retrospective, Aicon Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2010-11 Selected Works ‘1949 -2010’, Presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (22 December - 10 January) 2011 Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi, India A Retrospective, Aicon Gallery, London, U.K. Ramkumar b.1924