Chintamoni Kar
BORN DIED EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Chintamoni Kar was born in Kharagpur, West Bengal in 1915. The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta, was his alma mater. He studied sculpture at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, in 1938. Upon his return to India, he was a professor at the University of Calcutta. Later, he also taught at Delhi Polytechnic. In 1946 he moved from India to London. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He was elected principal of the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta in 1956. He has held a large number of exhibitions both in India and abroad. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1974. The artist died in 2005. Notification - We do not usually display Chintamoni Kar's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
19 April, 1915 Kharagpur West Bengal
October 3, 2005 Kolkata
He studied at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
1938-39 Sculpture at the Accademia de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris
1960-61 Scholarly Art Conservation, Conservation Laboratory of the Louvre Museum and Royal du Patrimoine Artisique, Paris
1975 Retrospective, Calcutta
1969 Solo Exhibition, Romania
1950 Exhibition at the Galerie des Garet, France.
1948-50 Exhibition at the Royal Society of British Artists
1948-50 Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
1944,46,50,52 Individual exhibitions
1938 Exhibition at the Grand Salon in Paris.
2013 The Nude and the Nude The Body in Modern Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
1962 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1955-60 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
1974 Awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
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