Sadanand Bakre (S. K. Bakre) (10 November 1920 – 18 December 2007) was an Indian painter and sculptor. Bakre was born in

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, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, the pioneers of

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in India. In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting. He had a one-man exhibition at the

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(1951), another at Gallery One (1959), and four at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery (1969–1975).Sadanand Bakre
, superhumanism.eu. Retrieved 2010-08-16. Bakre returned to India in 1975. In his later years he became a recluse, but he received a lifetime achievement award from the

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in 2004. He died from a

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in Murud-Harnai in the

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district in 2007.

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