Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising

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Early life

Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in astronomy. He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist from 1975 to 2000.

Career

After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor. Patwardhan's works are in the permanent collection of

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, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal;

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, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the

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and other prominent private and public collections.

Select Exhibitions (National and International)

* 'Aspects of Modem Indian Art'

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, U.K. 1982 * Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982 * Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg, West Germany, 1982 * Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985 * Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986 * 'Coupe de Coeur' Geneva, 1987 * 'Gadyaparva Exhibition' Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993) * 'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by

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, New York, USA (1995, 96) * 'Contemporary Indian Painters 96' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996) * 'Charcoal & Conte' Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai * 'Extreme Gourmet' Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City,

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, London, UK (2001)

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patwardhan, Sudhir Indian male painters 1949 births Living people Artists from Pune 20th-century Indian painters Painters from Maharashtra Indian radiologists Artists from Mumbai 20th-century Indian male artists