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Sadanand Bakre
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Born in Baroda in 1920, Sadanand Bakre was a leading Modernist and one of the members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, known for his innovative sculpting techniques. When his family moved to Bombay, Bakre joined the Gokhale Education Society school. Noticed by his drawing teacher and encouraged to paint, he took up painting seriously. He held his first solo exhibition of drawings of figures, pastel work, still life, water colour...
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Born in Baroda in 1920, Sadanand Bakre was a leading Modernist and one of the members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, known for his innovative sculpting techniques. When his family moved to Bombay, Bakre joined the Gokhale Education Society school. Noticed by his drawing teacher and encouraged to paint, he took up painting seriously. He held his first solo exhibition of drawings of figures, pastel work, still life, water colour landscapes and clay models of drapery, at the age of 16 at the Gokhale school.
In 1939, Bakre joined the Sculpture department of the Bombay School of Art. He was trained in the Academic Realist style, learning to model in clay and making plaster and bronze casts. His talent was soon recognised and he won several awards for his sculptures at art exhibitions. He received a Diploma in Sculpture in 1944 and was awarded the Lord Harding Scholarship.
Bakre’s talent was encouraged by the leading art critic Rudy von Leyden, who introduced him to the modernist movements in America and Europe. Like many of his generation, Bakre's development as an artist followed the trajectory of moving from academic realism to abstraction, in his paintings as well as his sculptures. The decade of the 1960s was one which saw the evolution of Bakre's vocabulary and style. From "spiky forms," he had, by the late ’60s, moved to more simplified forms with a growing interest in structure. Bakre's paintings and sculptures were shown and appreciated at several significant galleries in Europe and Mumbai. After time spent in Europe, the artist eventually returned to India in the 1980s and settled down in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, where he died in 2007.
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Born
November 10, 1920
Died
December 18, 2007
Education
1945 Joined Civil Aviation Flying School, Government of India, Saharanpur
1944 Diploma in Modeling and Stone Carving, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1939 Sir J. J School of Art, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2016 'Indian Modernist...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2016 'Indian Modernist Landscapes, 1950-1970, Bakre / Ribeiro / Souza', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 'Continuum', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'The Progressives & Associates', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 'Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1997 ‘Paintings and Sculptures’, Son-Et-Lumiere Art Gallery, Mumbai
1969-71 ‘Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures', Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London
1969 Fiddes Watt Gallery, London
1969 ‘Paintings’, Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London
1966 Burton Gallery, Burton, UK
1966 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1965 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1965 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1964 Gallery Private Bale, Switzerland
1964 Art Gallery of Mr. Roth, Detroit, USA
1962 Centaur Gallery, London
1961 ‘Sculptures and Paintings’, Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London
1959 Gallery One, London
1958 Woodstock Gallery, London
1951 ‘Sculptures and Drawings’, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1936 Gokhale Education Society, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 'Distillations', Birla Academy of art and Culture, Mumbai
1996 'The Moderns', Inaugural Show at National Gallery of Modern art (NGMA), Mumbai
1963 O' Hana Gallery, Mixed Christmas Exhibition, London
1961 Grand Palais de Champs, Elysees, Le Salon, Paris
1960 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, London
1953 'Bakre, Husain, Souza', Galerie Palette, Zurich
1949 Progressive Artist' Group, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
Participations
2005 'Manifestations III', organized by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi at Nehru Centre, Mumbai; Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2004 'Manifestations II', organized by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 'Manifestations', organized by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi at World Trade Centre, Mumbai; Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
1964 Plattsburg International Art Festival, Plattsburg, USA
1961 1st International Exhibition of Fine Art, Saigon, Vietnam
Honours and Awards
1950 Certificate in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1950 Best...
1950 Certificate in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1950 Best Sculpture, President Cowasji Jehangir Prize, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1949 Best Sculpture, His Highness The Princess of Berar Cash Prize, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1949 Silver Medal, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1949 First Cash Prize, Best Portrait, Hyderabad Art Society, Hyderabad
1948 Best Work in Oil Painting, Late Rustom Sodio Memorial Cash Prize, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1948 Best Work in Sculpture, Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1948 President Sir Cowasji Jehangir Cash Prize in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1947 Cash Prize, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1944 Professor O.V.Mulller Memorial Cash Prize, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1943 Lord Harding’s Scholarship
1943 Lord Mayo Gold Medal, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1942 His Highness .The Raja Saheb of Bhore’s Cash Prize in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1942 His Highness The Maharaja of Bhavnagar’s Cash Prize in Sculpyure, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1942 Bronze Medal in Sculpture, Kolhapur Art Society, Kolhapur
1941 Sir Cowasji Jehangir First Prize in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1940 Certificate in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1940 Two Scholarships, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1939 His Highness The Maharaja of Bhavnagar’s Cash Prize in Sculpture, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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