445 Baburao Sadwelkar, 1918-2000, ‘The Things Around’, and ‘Ambiguity’, signed and dated lower right ’51 and ’52, signed in Devangari, gouache on card, mounted together, 17 x 16cm 17.5 x 17.5cm


Private collection formed in India between 1952-54.


Acquired from the above by a private collector in London in 1958.


Sadwelkar was born in Sawantwadi, Maharashtra in 1918. From 1953-71 he taught at the Departmen. of Painting, J.J. School of Art, Bombay. In 1956 he was invited to join the Bombay Group and participated in all the group shows until 1962. In 1976 he was appointed Art Director by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission, Government. of Maharashtra. In 1990-91 he became a Member of the Board of Trustees, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay.


EXHIBITIONS


1954 27th International Biennale, Venice. 1955, 56, 59, 74, 85 Solo exhb., Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1958 Asian Artists Exhb., Tokyo, Japan. 1961 2nd Biennale de Paris, France. 1962 Indian Artists Exhb., Moscow. 1962 7th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil. 1963 Solo exhb., Gallery Art Unlimited, Providence, R.I. 1964 Solo exhb., Roopa Art Gallery, Bombay. 1965 Exhb. of Contemporary Indian Artists, organised by Lalit Kala Akademi, Nairobi, Kenya. 1965, 86 Solo exhb., Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1971 Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil. 1988 Art for Cry, Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Bangalore. 1989 Nature and Environment, organised by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi. 2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. £1,000-1,500*


445


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