Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising

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Early life

Patwardhan was born in

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in Medicine from the

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. He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist in

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from 1975 to 2005.

Career

After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor. Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of

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, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal;

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, New Delhi,

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, Mumbai; the

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and other prominent private and public collections.

Select Exhibitions (National and International)

* 'Aspects of Modem Indian Art'

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, U.K. 1982 * Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982 * Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg,

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, 1982 * Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985 * Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986 * 'Coupe de Coeur'

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, 1987 * 'Gadyaparva Exhibition' Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993) * 'Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Part I, auction by

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, New York, USA (1995, 96) * 'Contemporary Indian Painters 96' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996) * 'Charcoal & Conte' Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai * 'Extreme Gourmet' Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City,

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, London, UK (2001)

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patwardhan, Sudhir Indian male painters 1949 births Living people Artists from Pune 20th-century Indian painters Painters from Maharashtra Indian radiologists Artists from Mumbai 20th-century Indian male artists