PRESS RELEASE
SOLO SHOW
N.S. BENDRE
16th December 2021 - 12th January 2022 Monday - Saturday | 10 am - 6 pm Vadehra Art Gallery
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Vadehra Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by Narayan Shridhar Bendre on view at our modern gallery space from 16 December 2021 through 12 January 2022. The exhibition shows the artist’s remarkable style of watercolour painting and sketching through 51 works. The works on view are from the collection of his son and Mumbai-based artist, Padmanabh Bendre.
Bendre’s fondness for simple sketches is showcased throughout this exhibition. These sketches are the origin of his numerous paintings whilst being pleasing to the eye. He captures his fascination with human bodies, as well as places, dwellings and nature, using quick and bold strokes.
We’re happy to welcome visitors to the gallery where we’re undertaking all safety protocols. An e-catalogue is also available on request. For all inquiries, please write to art@vadehraart.com.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
B. 1910
A contemporary of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee, N. S. Bendre was born in 1910 in Indore. His artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929. After which he got the Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933.
In 1941, he won the Bombay Art Society Gold Medal. In 1943, he was hailed as the “leading artist of his generation” by the Times of India. Throughout his long career, he travelled extensively, both in India and abroad.
Bendre taught at the newly established faculty of ne arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda for 16 years, joining as the Head of Painitng section. In retrospect, he must be considered as one of the most in uential Indian artists of mid-twentieth century.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
Established in 1987, Vadehra Art Gallery is among the most well-respected art galleries in India representing a roster of artists spanning four generations. Modern masters like M.F. Husain, Ram Kumar, S.H. Raza and Tyeb Mehta nd prime spot in the gallery’s calendar alongside the subsequent generation of modernists like Arpita Singh, Nalini Malani, Gulammohammed Sheikh and Rameshwar Broota. VAG’s contemporary programme includes some of the most exciting names in Indian art such as Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, Anju Dodiya, N.S. Harsha, Jagannath Panda, as well as young emerging talent. As a key artistic interlocutor to audiences in India the gallery expanded its exhibition programme in 2007 to exhibit important names from the international contemporary art scene. Since then VAG has exhibited works of signi cant international artists including Yoko Ono, Wolfgang Laib, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Vadehra Art Gallery ventured into publishing in 1996, nding a crucial need for adequate documentation, critical writing, and quality reproduction of images. In the last two decades the gallery has published hundreds of illustrated exhibition catalogues, and several important artist monographs, some in collaboration with international publishing house, Prestel.