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Sadanand Bakre
(1920 - 2007)

Portrait



“I paint as I like. It is a compelling passion with me to keep alive and I cannot help painting or sculpting.”
- SADANAND BAKRE

Sadanand Bakre was one of the founding members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group alongside K H Ara, S H Raza, F N Souza, M F Husain and H A Gade. In 1939, he joined the J J School of Art in Bombay where he formally trained as a sculptor. He was mentored in modernism by Charles Garrard, the then...



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  Lot 21 of 60  

WINTER LIVE AUCTION
13 DECEMBER 2023

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 78,00,000
$93,976

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Sadanand Bakre
Portrait

Signed 'BAKRE' and dated in Devnagari (lower right); signed and inscribed 'S.K. BAKRE'/ 27ST HELENS GDNS/ W.10/ "PORTRAIT"' (on the reverse)
1959
Oil on Masonite
36 x 23.75 in (91.5 x 60.5 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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