Sadanand Bakre (S. K. Bakre) (10 November 1920 – 18 December 2007) was an Indian painter and sculptor. Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, [1] [2] the pioneers of modern art in India. [3] In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting.

Sadanandji K. Bakre's preoccupation with abstraction in his sculptures was inspired by Paul Klee’s lyricism and Picasso’s de-structuring of form. A founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group, he was born in Baroda, Gujarat, on 10 November 1920.

Sadanand K. Bakre was born in Baroda in 1920. When his family moved to Bombay, Bakre joined the Gokhale Education Society School. Noticed by his drawing teacher and encouraged to paint, he took up painting seriously.

Born in Baroda in 1920, Sadanand Bakre was a leading Modernist and one of the members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, known for his innovative sculpting techniques. When his family moved to Bombay, Bakre joined the Gokhale Education Society school.

Sadanand K. Bakre was born in Baroda in 1920. Bakre began studying sculpture at the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1939. He experimented with several sculptural techniques, and his inventiveness was quickly noticed.

Sadanand Bakre occupies a position of prime importance in Modern Indian Art as a formative influence by his abstract use of colour and meaningful distortion of forms in his sculpture and painting. It was he, along with his fellow-painters of the Progressive Artists Group, who by innovative approaches helped to bring a breakthrough in the old ...

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Sep 3, 2020 · Sadanand Bakre (S. K. Bakre) was born on 10 November 1920 in Baroda, died 18 December 2007, he was an Indian painter and sculptor, In 1939, Bakre joined the ...

Primarily a sculptor, S. K. Bakre’s paintings had a sculptural quality about them— something that becomes evident in Two Prophets in One that uses a mid-twentieth century cubist trope of merging profiles wherein one face is revealed as two. Bakre separates them through the colour of their pupils and lips.

Jun 5, 1997 · Both a painter and a sculptor, Bakre now lives and works on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra at Murud-Harnai. He has had one-man shows at Gallery One (London) in 1959, the Centaur Gallery (Mumbai) in 1962 and at the Commonwealth Institute in 1961.