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In the present lot, we see several of the artist's key interests converging to form an arresting and lyrical image. We see an idyllic landscape, rolling fields set against a background of snow-capped mountains. Bendre was first introduced to landscapes at the Indore school where he began his artistic career. The quasi-modern landscapes being produced there at the time were an interest he carried throughout his career, returning to this theme at... In the present lot, we see several of the artist's key interests converging to form an arresting and lyrical image. We see an idyllic landscape, rolling fields set against a background of snow-capped mountains. Bendre was first introduced to landscapes at the Indore school where he began his artistic career. The quasi-modern landscapes being produced there at the time were an interest he carried throughout his career, returning to this theme at various times. He also took a keen interest in modernism and consistently explored Cubism, Expressionism and Pointillism as modes of expression. We see these experiments at play here - a leaning toward cubist lines in the depiction of the fields and mountains, carefully delineated swathes of colour and also a hint of expressionist tendencies in the treatment of the sky. The choice of colours is also very deliberate; the tones are muted, in pursuit of realising on canvas an exact sensory experience of a space. Bendre believed that paintings should convey a visual experience and his landscapes were no exception. Speaking of his work he said, "The art of painting begins with visual experience and ends with the conveying of that experience in a concrete form - an art form. It is a pictorial statement. It expresses a visual experience of things beyond and beside you" ("My Painting", Bendre: The Painter and the Person, The Bendre Foundation for Art and Culture & Indus Corporation, Toronto, 1990, pg. 63).

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