BORN DIED EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED POSTHUMOUS EXHIBITIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Maharashtra in 1924, Vasudeo S Gaitonde considered his work to be non-objective and believed that there was no such thing as abstract art. Evoking subliminal depths, Gaitonde's paintings are known for their spiritual quality and characteristic silence, as meditative as it is eternal and meaningful. The simple, large surfaces of layered paint possess an inherent quality of light. Gaitonde graduated in painting from the Sir J J School of Art in 1948 and subsequently joined the Progressive Artists Group. For Gaitonde, art was a complete process in itself. Exploring its inner spaces and transitory realities helped him move toward himself. A non-conformist, Gaitonde always stayed away from anything alien to his identity as a painter. Over the years, he evolved as a painter who was increasingly meticulous in presenting his identity. Gaitonde's work has been exhibited in several exhibitions in India and abroad. In 2014-15, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York organized a major retrospective of the artist's works, titled V S. Gaitonde Painting as Process, Painting as Life. His work is part of several Indian and foreign collections, including that of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. He was awarded the first prize at the Young Asian Artists Exhibition in Tokyo in 1957 and the J D Rockefeller III Fellowship in 1964. In recognition of his contributions to Indian art, Gaitonde was awarded the Padma Shri in 1971. Gaitonde lived and worked in New Delhi and died in August 2001. Notification - We do not usually display V. S. Gaitonde's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
November 2, 1924, Nagpur
August 10, 2001, New Delhi
1943-48 Diploma in Painting, Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay
2019 V. S. Gaitonde The Silent Observer, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalya (CSMVS), Mumbai
2014-15 V. S. Gaitonde Painting as Process, Painting as Life, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2014 Indian Abstracts An Absence of Form, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2014 Pravaha Glimpses of the Art of the Bombay School, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai
2013-14 Transition, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2013 Rediscover The Collection Revealed, Pittsburgh Art Gallery
2013 Mumbai Modern Progressive Artists Group 1947-2013, Delhi Art Gallery, Bombay
2013 Pioneers of Modernism, Sovereign FZE, Dubai
2013 Nothing is Absolute: A Journey Through Abstraction, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Bombay
2013 Air India Art Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
2012 Manifestations VIII Indian Art of the Twentieth Century, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 The Printed Image, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 Indian Modernist Art Approaching Abstraction, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2012 One Eye Sees, the Other Feels, The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2012 Through the Ages South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism, Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 Crossings Time Unfolded, Part 2, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011-12 Six Decades Celebrating Bombay Artists from the Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai
2011 Adbhutam Rasa in Indian Art, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta
2011 Modern Masters, Aicon Gallery, New York York
2011 Manifestations VI 75 Artists, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Manifestations 5 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Modern Masters Masterpieces by the Progressive Group of Indian Artists, Part 2, Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 Homi Bhabha and Modern Indian Art The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2011 Manifestations, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 Roots in the Air, Branches Below Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 The Unfolded Time, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 V S Gaitonde Works from Private Collections, Saffronart, New Delhi
2010 The Progressives & Associates, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 Black and White, Galerie Mirchandani Steinruecke, Mumbai 2010 Masters of Maharashtra, Lalit Kala Akademi Collection, New Delhi, Piramal Gallery, National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2009 Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009 Progressive to Altermodern 62 Years of Indian Modern Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur, Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur, Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur, PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune, Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 Moderns, Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan, organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in collaboration with the Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2008-09 Expanding Horizons Contemporary Indian Art, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati, Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur, Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad, Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalays, Solapur, Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur, PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune, Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 Multiple Modernities India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
2008 Freedom 2008 Sixty Years after Indian Independence, Center for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta, Trip to Bombay
2007-08 India arte oggi Larte contemporanea indiana fra continuita e transformazione (India Art Now Between Continuity and Transformation), Spazio Oberdan, Milan
2007 Pinnacle Progressives, Tamarind Art, New York
2006 Indian Art I - III The Moderns Revisited, Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London
2006 Roop Adhyatma, Bodhi Art, Singapore
2005 Exhibition of Eight Painters, Gallery Arts India, New York
2004 The Search Paintings from National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bombay
2004 Concept and Form, Vadehra Art Gallery, Bombay
2004 Subtlety-Minimally, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003 crossing generations DIVERGE Forty Years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2002 India Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, N.J.
2001 Modern Indian Art 12 Contemporary Painters, organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2002 Solo exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Solo exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1997 An Abstract Vision, Pundole Art Gallery and Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art (HEART), Mumbai
1996 Exhibition of paintings and drawings by V.S. Gaitonde, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1991 Artists Centre, Bombay
1985 Drawings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1984 Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1981 Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1977 Paintings, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1975 Drawings 1958-1962, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1973 Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi
1966,69,70,74 Taj Art Gallery, Bombay
1965 Willard Gallery, New York
1963 Gallery 63, New York
1961-62 Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1960 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1960 Gallery 59, Bombay
1959 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1959 Graham Gallery, New York
2001 Ashta Nayak, Tao Art Gallery, Bombay
1994 River of Art, inaugural exhibition in Delhi
1994 Drawing 94, Espace Gallery, New Delhi
1989 Timeless Art, organized by The Times of India, Bombay
1988 17 Indian Painters, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1987 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
1987 Group exhibition with M. F. Husain, Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna, Laxman Shreshtha, and Nalini Malani, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1985 Contemporary Indian Painters, Festival of India in USA, Grey Art Gallery, USA
1981 Indian Painting Today, 1981, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1979 Focus Four Painters - Directions, Chemould Gallery, Bombay
1978 Group exhibition with Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna, and V. S. Gaitonde, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1977 Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1970 Art Today II, Ashoka Gallery, Calcutta and Shridharani
1965 Art Now in India, London, Newcastle, UK
1965 Ten Contemporary Indian Painters, MIT and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, USA
1963 Gallery 63, New York
1964 Six Artists in Black and White, Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi
1963 8 Contemporary Painters from India Interaction of East and West, Lever House, New York
1963 Inaugural exhibition, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1962-63 Contemporary Art of India, Gallery 63, New York
1962 London, UK
1960 Northampton Museum, UK
1959 Gallery 59 opens, Gallery 59, Bombay
1959 Trends in Modern Indian Art, New Delhi
1959 Twenty Artists Exhibition, New Delhi
1957 Dai-ikkai Ajia seinen bijutsuka-ten (First Exhibition of Young Asian Artists), Tokyo Department Store, Shibuya
1957 Five Thousand Years of Indian Art, Essex
1956 Eight Painters, Indian Cooperative Union, New Delhi
1953 Progressive Artists Group Gaitonde, K. H. Ara, Hazarnis, Krishen Khanna, Abdul Aziz Raiba, M. F. Husain, Mohan Samant, H. A. Gade, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1951-57 Artists Aid Centre, Bombay, various exhibitions
1951 Progressive Artists Group Painting Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1949 Progressive Artists Group, Bombay
2000-01 Millennium Show A Century of Maharashtrian Art, Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 Shatabdi Reflections on a Century Past, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta, Travelled to Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 Millennium Show - A Century of Maharashtrian Art, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1998 Symbolism and Geometry, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1998 Private Mythology Contemporary Art from India, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo
1998 A Collectors Eye Selected Works from the Jehangir Nicholson Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1997 Image - Beyond Image Contemporary Indian Paintings from the Collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum, Glenbarra Art Museum, Himeji, Travelled to Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1997 Intuitive Logic A Festival of Contemporary Indian Painting, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, and The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art (HEART), Bombay
1997 IntuitiveLogic II Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, and The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art (HEART), Bombay
1997 Post-Independence Indian Contemporary Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1997 Tryst with Destiny Art from Modern India 1947-1997, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
1997 A Global View Indian Artists at Home in the World, Fine Art Resource, Berlin
1997 Intuitive Logic II, organized by The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art (HEART), Bombay at The Park, New Delhi and Nehru Centre, Bombay
1996 Chamatkara Myth and Magic in Indian Art, Collection of the Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta at Whiteleys Art Gallery, London
1996 The Moderns The Progressive Artists Group and Associates, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay
1994 Seven Indian Painters, Le Monde de l'Art Gallery, Paris
1994 One Hundred Years of the NGMA Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1993 Wounds, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Calcutta
1993 Contemporary Indian Art from the Glenbarra Art Museum, Sogo Museum, Yokohama
1991 Masters, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1991 National Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1991 Remembering Kali Pundole, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1990 Goan Artists: Exhibition of Paintings, Kala Academy, Goa
1988 Indo gendai bijutsuten Contemporary Indian Art, Takaoka Municipal Art Museum, travels to Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo, Machida Municipal Museum of Graphic Arts
1987 Indian Drawing Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1987 Coups de Coeur exhibition of Indian paintings, Halles de l'Ille, Geneva
1986 Bharat Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bharat Bhavan Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1985 Thirty Indian Artists from the Richardson Hindustan Collection, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay
1982 Inaugural exhibition, Bharat Bhavan Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1982 Modern Indian Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1982 India, Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Oxford, UK
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India Exhibition, 1982, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1976 Perth Festival, Perth, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay
1975 The Paths of Abstraction, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1974 Second International Biennial of Menton, France
1973 Contemporary Indian Painting 1973 Commemoration of the Silver Jubilee of India's Independence, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1972 25 Years of Indian Art, Painting, Sculpture and Graphics in the Post-Independence Era, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1968 First Triennial, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1965 Indian Painting Now, Commonwealth Institute, London, Traveled to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Darlington Art Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery
1964 Recent acquisitions South Asian Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964-65 Ten Contemporary Painters from India, Detroit Institute of Arts, Traveled to the University of South Florida, Tampa, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, January
1964, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Hunter Gallery, Chattanooga, Colorado Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, San Francisco Museum of Art, MIT Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, Mass., Long Beach Art Center, East-West Center, Honolulu, and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
1962 Venice Biennale (India Hall) 1962, Annual Exhibition of the Bombay Art Society, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1961 Group exhibition of Graphic art featuring the work of Tyeb Mehta, M. F. Husain, V. S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Devyani Krishna, Akbar Padamsee, Laxman Pai, Jaganathan, Vinodray Patel, Jyoti Bhatt, Nasreen Mohamedi, Jagmohan Chopra, Somnath Hore, Gunen Ganguli and Jyoti Swaroop, Kunika Art Centre, New Delhi
1961 National Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1959-60 Trends in Contemporary Indian Painting, Graham Gallery, New York, organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York
1959 Indische Kunst der Gegenwart (Indian Art Today), Museum Folkwang, Essen
1959 Sao Paulo Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
1956 National Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1955-56 Exhibition of Indian art organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Toured Eastern Europe
1954 Venice Biennale, Venice
1948 Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1989-90 Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh
1974 National Prize, International Festival of Painting, Cagness-Sur-Mer, France
1971 Padmashree from the Government of India
1965 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1964-65 J. D. Rockefeller III Fellowship to live and work in the U.S.A.
1950 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1957 Young Asian Artists Award, Tokyo.
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