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Dashrath Patel
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" If you don't make things for your own surprise, you become like a baker, everyday making the same round bread to sell."
Deriding the need to specialize, Patel's artistic endeavors encompass a multiplicity of styles, techniques and mediums. Largely without formal academic training in the arts, the artist draws inspiration from a range of international and local sources and teachers. He has collaborated and apprenticed with a...
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" If you don't make things for your own surprise, you become like a baker, everyday making the same round bread to sell."
Deriding the need to specialize, Patel's artistic endeavors encompass a multiplicity of styles, techniques and mediums. Largely without formal academic training in the arts, the artist draws inspiration from a range of international and local sources and teachers. He has collaborated and apprenticed with a number of exceptional personalities, including the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the architects Louise Kahn and Frei Otto and the engraver William Hayter.
As a result, Patel's creative output traverses disparate disciplines. One of India's first multi-media artists, he is also accomplished in fields such as photography, painting, installation art, pottery and industrial design. Interestingly, Patel never works strictly within the confines of these disciplines. Instead, he deliberately transgresses their boundaries in order to draw out the interrelations between them.
Patel's use of figuration in his early paintings from the 1940s and 1950s, deeply influenced by French Impressionism, gave way to a conscious exploration of abstract, sometimes geometrical, motifs from the middle period of his career onwards. His most recent works, called 'abstract paper collages', are amalgamations of wood and brilliantly tinted paper.
A constant preoccupation in his work is the interrelation of light and color. Through all his shifts of style and medium, this investigation has remained central to his art. For Patel, it becomes importantly enmeshed in the construction of a uniquely Indian aesthetic. "Our whole Indian palette has this ability to receive and then release light. It was designed to interact with the sun... The Indian color sensitivity grew out of a tremendous understanding between landscape and light." His works bring together the multiple facets of Indian culture, old and new, urban and rural, as their vivid, multiple hues reflect the manifold instances of color in Indian society.
Born in Nadiad, Gujarat in 1927, Dashrath Patel passed away on December 1, 2010
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Born
1927
Died
2010
Education
1949 -53 Diploma,Fine Arts,GCAM *
1953 -55 Post-Graduate Diploma,(Fine Arts),L'Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux -Arts,Paris *
1953-56 With William Hayter,School of Engraving,Paris *
1959 -60 post-Graduate Diploma,(Art Ceramics),School of Art,Prague *
1965-66 Rockfeller Foundation Scholarship,Design & Architecture,USA *
1965 Photography with Herbert Matter,New York *
Exhibitions
1999 |Ex.,|'In the Realm of the Visual:Five Decades in Painting/Ceramics/Photography/Design 1948 -1998',NGMA|New Delhi & Mumbai *
1995 |Ex.,||Bangalore & Madras *
1982 |Ex.,||Madras & New Delhi *
1964 |Ex.,||Bombay *
1960 |Ex.,||Prague *
1955 |Ex.,||London *
1954 |Ex.,||Paris *
1999 |Ex.,|'In the Realm of the Visual:Five Decades in Painting/Ceramics/Photography/Design 1948 -1998',NGMA|New Delhi & Mumbai *
1995 |Ex.,||Bangalore & Madras *
1982 |Ex.,||Madras & New Delhi *
1964 |Ex.,||Bombay *
1960 |Ex.,||Prague *
1955 |Ex.,||London *
1954 |Ex.,||Paris *
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PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS
Showing
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of
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Lot 49
Details
Absolute Tuesdays
2 November 2021
Untitled
Oil on jute
26 x 40 in
Winning bid
$3,723
Rs 2,75,520
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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