Sadanand Bakre (S. K. Bakre) (10 November 1920 – 18 December 2007) was an Indian painter and sculptor.
Bakre was born in
Baroda
Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...
, and was one of the founders of the
Bombay Progressive Artists' Group,
the pioneers of
modern art in India. In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting. He had a one-man exhibition at the
Commonwealth Institute
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(1951), another at
Gallery One (1959), and four at the
Nicholas Treadwell Gallery (1969–1975).
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Bakre returned to India in 1975. In his later years he became a recluse, but he received a lifetime achievement award from the
Bombay Art Society
The Bombay Art Society is a non-profit art organization based in Mumbai. The institution was founded in 1888 for encouraging and promoting art. Most of the renowned artists on India's art scene have been associated with the Bombay Art Society in s ...
in 2004.
He died from a
heart attack
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in
Murud-Harnai in the
Ratnagiri district in 2007.
References
Sources
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1920 births
1987 deaths
People from Vadodara
Indian male painters
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art alumni
20th-century Indian painters
Painters from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian male artists
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