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N S Bendre
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Born in Indore in 1910, N S Bendre was a contemporary of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee. His artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929. This was followed by the Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933. In 1947-1948, Bendre travelled to the United States, gaining an exposure to 20 th century Western art.
A member of the committee of artists who set up the Lalit Kala Akademi, and...
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Born in Indore in 1910, N S Bendre was a contemporary of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee. His artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929. This was followed by the Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933. In 1947-1948, Bendre travelled to the United States, gaining an exposure to 20 th century Western art.
A member of the committee of artists who set up the Lalit Kala Akademi, and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at M S University of Baroda from 1959, Bendre was a towering figure in the world of modern Indian art. Known as "Dada" (elder brother) to generations of students, he had a profound influence on art in India. Bendre introduced new ideas in art education, including an intellectual informality in disseminating information. As an artist, Bendre was equally adept at portraits, landscapes and still- lifes, inspiring awe among his students with his demonstrations of painting techniques.
Bendre achieved early recognition when he won the Silver Medal of Art, awarded by the Bombay Art Society, in 1934, followed by the Gold Medal in 1941.
In 1947 he went to the United States. Among Bendre’s earliest exhibitions was a solo show at Windermere Gallery, New York in 1948. He joined the Progressive Artists’ Group the same year, upon his return to India.
During his years in Baroda, he embarked on what is perceived as the most important phase of his career, exploring ways of combining cubist, expressionist, and abstract genres from Western Modernism into his own work which stemmed from Indian formalism. He continued to travel within India and abroad, and after he resigned from Baroda in 1966, he started experimenting with his version of pointillism, receiving the Padma Shri Award from the President of India in 1969. He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1991.
He continued to paint till he passed away on 18 February 1992.
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Born
1910
Died
1992
Education
1948 Graphic Art, Art Student’s League, New York
1947-48 Ceramics, Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), New York
1947-48 Study Tour of USA, sponsored by Federation of American Artists, Philadelphia, USA
1933 Government Diploma in Art, Mumbai
1929-34 Diploma in Painting, State School of Art, Indore
1929-33 Bachelor of Art, Holkar College, Agra University
Exhibitions
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 'Radical Terrain:...
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2012-13 'Radical Terrain: Modernist Art from India', Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 ‘Manifestations IV', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Masters of Maharashtra', collection from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi at Piramal Gallery, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2009 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead
2008 'Moderns', Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with Embassy of India, Amman, Jordan
2008 'Baroda: A Tale of Two Cities', (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2004 ‘Manifestations II, organized by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2000 ‘N. S. Bendre Exhibition of Sketches’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992 ‘Indian Art Exhibition N. S. Bendre’, Abhinav Art Gallery, Jammu organized by Individuals Cultural Centre, Jammu
1992 ‘Professor Narayan Shridhar Bendre: Drawings and Paintings’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1985 ‘Bendre 1985’, Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1983 Mumbai
1981 Mumbai
1980 Mumbai
1979 Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1977 Mumbai
1976 Mumbai
1974 ‘Retrospective’, Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai organized by Lalit kala Akademi on the Occasion of the Conferment of Fellowship
1972 Mumbai
1970 Mumbai
1969 ‘Traveling Exhibition’, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland
1968,70,72,74,76,77 New York
1968 Mumbai
1963 Mumbai
1962 Baroda
1960 ‘Abstract Works’, Baroda
1957 Baroda
1950 Mumbai
1947-48 ‘Traveling Exhibition’, Windermere Gallery, New York
1945 Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
1943 Mumbai
Participations
1934-39,41,44,58-59 Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
Honours and Awards
1992 Padma Bhushan, Government of India
1984 Kalidas Sanman.,...
1992 Padma Bhushan, Government of India
1984 Kalidas Sanman., Government of Madhya Pradesh
1983 D. Litt, Indira Kala Sangeet University, Khairagarh, Madhya Pradesh
1982,84 Gagan Abani Award from Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan, Kolkata
1974 Fellowship from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1971 Chairman, International Jury, Second Triennale exhibition, New Delhi
1969 Padmashree, Government of India
1963 Member of Indian Delegation, Japan
1959-66,71 Chairman International Jury, II Triennale, New Delhi
1958-59 Annual Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1955 National Award for his work entitled ‘Thron’, by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1954 Nominated Eminent Artist, General Council and Executive Board, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1945 Patel Trophy for his work ‘Quit India’, Art Society of India, Mumbai
1943 Trophy, Art Society of India, Mumbai
1941 Gold Medal for his work ‘Landscapes of Benars’, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1936,35 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1935 Silver Medal for his Work ‘Street Children’, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1934 Silver Medal for his Work ‘Vagabond’, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
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