Right now, it seems like the artist of the moment is Narayan Shridhar Bendre. After a successful show in Kolkata, New Delhi's Vadehra Art Gallery has recently put up 51 works by the modernist master in an exhibition that celebrates his dexterity with watercolour.
N.S. Bendre, who was born in Indore in 1910 and passed away in Mumbai in 1992 at the age of 81, was a lifelong lover of the medium. "In fact, back in the 1940s, my father was a much sought-after watercolour specialist in the Bombay art world. Even though a science student, he had a gift for drawing from a young age, a talent he later honed at Dattaray Deolalikar's art school in Indore," says his Mumbai-based son, Padmanabh N. Bendre.
9 January 2022
