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Sadanand Bakre
(1920 - 2007)

Untitled



“My interest in forms has gone far beyond the dull limitations of subject matter...” - SADANAND BAKRE

Born in Vadodara in 1920, Sadanand Bakre was a founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group alongside F N Souza, S H Raza, M F Husain, K H Ara, and H A Gade. His background in sculpture emerged from a strong realist tradition that he would later break out of. As a young boy, he found a mentor in Raghunath Phadke who took...



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  Lot 66 of 78  

EVENING SALE: MODERN ART
16 SEPTEMBER 2023

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 1,02,00,000
$122,892

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Sadanand Bakre
Untitled

Signed 'Bakre' and dated in Devnagari (centre right)
1959
Oil on Masonite
48 x 48 in (122 x 122 cm)

PROVENANCE
Gifted by the artist to Mr. Absalom Peters, London, 1970s
(Mr. Peters was a friend of the artist. For a short time in the 1970s, they shared a flat in London where the artist used the back bedroom as a studio. Bakre gifted this work to Mr. Peters upon returning to India permanently)
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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