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Bendre's artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929. A contemporary of Nandalal Bose, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at M S University of Baroda from 1959 and a member of the committee of artists who set up the Lalit Kala Akademi. As an artist, Bendre was equally adept at portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Over six decades, he experimented with Cubism, Expressionism and Pointillism to express classically... Bendre's artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929. A contemporary of Nandalal Bose, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at M S University of Baroda from 1959 and a member of the committee of artists who set up the Lalit Kala Akademi. As an artist, Bendre was equally adept at portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Over six decades, he experimented with Cubism, Expressionism and Pointillism to express classically Indian themes such as birds and animals, fi gures, and landscapes of Indian villages.

The present lot was painted in 1976 at a time of great creativity after he had settled in Mumbai in 1966, after extensive travels through India and Europe. The subject of women in the landscape tending to their goats draws references from miniature painting and mythology, and pays homage to Raja Ravi Varma in addition to incorporating influences from traditional Japanese painting in the use of flat paint and the rendering of the flowering trees. In the latter half of his career, Bendre "gives prime importance to his visual experience, but he does not resort to naturalistic representation. He interprets it on his canvas in his own terms and offers what he has seen and enjoyed..." (Ram Chatterji, Bendre: The Painter and the Person, Mumbai" Th e Bendre Foundation for Art and Culture & Indus Corporation, 1990, p. 61) Bendre's complete mastery over form, technique and composition is seen in this charming rendition of a village landscape.

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