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

262 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Education 1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Applied Art), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India 2006 Residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore Select Teaching & Infrastructure-building Activities Worked as a Designer in New Delhi, India Taught at CAVA in Mysore before returning to Vadodara to receive his Master of Fine Arts Faculty Member, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India Selected Awards & Honours 1993 Best Emerging Artist, Sotheby’s 1996 Grand Prize, Sixth Bharat Bhavan Bienniale of Contemporary Indian Art 2000 Sotheby’s Prize for Contemporary Indian Art Pollock Krasner Foundation Award Selected Solo Exhibitions 1990 Paintings, Gallery 7, Mumbai, India (06-14 March) 1994 Nataraj Recent Works 1992-1994, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India 1996 Nataraj Recent Works 1994-96, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India 1999 Nataraj Sharma, at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (08 - 13 April) 2000 Nataraj Sharma, Presented by Nature Morte in Association with Lokayata, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (26 February - 11 March) Nataraj Sharma, at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (25 March - 13 April) 2004 Vapi Horse and Other Stories: Exhibition of Paintings & works on Paper, Presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi & Bose Pacia, New York, U.S.A. (02 - 23 October) 2007 Flight Art and Public, Geneva & Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Stretch: Traveling Exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore & Bodhi Art Gallery, Singapore, Mumbai and New York, U.S.A. 2008 Work In Progress, Bodhi Space, Mumbai, India 2008-09 Airshow, Bodhi Art Gallery, Singapore Selected Group Exhibitions 2001 Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai, Presented by Gallery Espace, at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India 2003 Ways of Resistance, Sahmat, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi and Mumbai, India 2005 Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A. Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Asia Society and Museum, New York, U.S.A. Revisualising India, Curated by Neville Tuli, Presented by Osian’s - Connoisseur’s of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India Icon: India Contemporary, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Nataraj Sharma b.1958 Education 1916-19 Presidency College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India 1919-21 Graduate in English Literature, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India Studied Painting under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1923 Lecturer in English at the B.N.College. Patna, India 1929 Vice Principal, Govt. School of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow, India 1935 President, Fine Art Section, Bengali Literary Conference, New Delhi, India 1938 President, Drawing Section, U. P. Educational Conference Select Solo Exhibitions Exhibitied Paintings in various places in Europe, Tokyo, Java and U.S.A. 2005 Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara, India (28 April - 10 May) 2010 BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH : HIMALAYAS AND THE ART OF BIRESWAR SEN, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India 2011 PILGRIM OF ETERNITY: EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS BY BIRESWAR SEN, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata, India 2012 A QUIET PASSION: LANDSCAPES IN MINIATURE BY BIRESWAR SEN, Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India 2013 Conversations with Nature: The Art of Bireswar Sen,Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, india Select Monographs, Films & Other References Fohs et Urigo,Craft Design and A.B.C. of Pattern Design (Published by the Department of Industries) Abanindra Nath Tagore, Main Currents of Modern Indian Painting, Art and Nature, Tradition and Mannerism, Art of Portrait painting Art without Representation, New Art, Bases of Village Ritual Decoration Bireshwar Sen 1897-1974 Lot 62