Madhuri Bhaduri (born 1958) is an Indian
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
.
Originally a sportsperson, playing
badminton and
squash at a national level, Bhaduri began painting in 1977. She gave away her early artworks to friends and family, and then began to sell paintings once she realised that people were willing to pay for them.
After studying French at the
Alliance Française in
Pune, Bhaduri graduated with a
Master's degree in Art from the
University of Mumbai in 1988, but had already begun exhibiting her work two years earlier at the Bal Gandharva Art Gallery.
During her career Bhaduri has created works in a variety of style, including
abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
,
landscapes and
figurative paintings.
Although she primarily works in
oils, in 2002 she also experimented with abstract
sculpture.
[ Her paintings were purchased by many private collectors, including Gayatri Devi, ]Ajay Piramal
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, Aditya Vikram Birla & Jamshed Bhabha (former chairman of Tata Sons
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).[ As well as shows in her native India, Bhaduri's work has also been the subject of a solo exhibition in Dubai.]All Ladies League
ALL Ladies League (ALL) is an international women’s chamber for the welfare and empowering women’s leadership. The organization was founded in 2015 by Harbeen Arora.
Activities
ALL confers Awards. Distinguished people who have received the ...
award for "Iconic leadership in Art, Design & Entrepreneurship", as well as the Sarojini Naidu National Award for Women.[
]
References
External links
Artist's website
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Indian women sculptors
Indian women painters
1958 births
Abstract painters
Living people
20th-century Indian women artists
21st-century Indian women artists