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Lot No. 28
AKBAR PADAMSEE
1928-2020

LANDSCAPE
35 x 50 in (89 x 127 cm)
Oil on canvas
1963
Signed & Dated: Bottom Right
` 3,00,00,000 - 4,00,00,000
$ 365,854 - 487,805

Provenance: Property from a collection
based in New Delhi.

Born in Bombay in 1928, Akbar Padamsee
hailed from a family with roots in Gujarat.
He embarked on his formal art educa-
tion at the Sir J.J. School of Art, coinciding
with the emergence of the Progressive
Artists’ Group (PAG) on the Indian art
scene in 1947. Upon completing his ed-
ucation, Akbar Padamsee decided to
venture to France in 1951, where he lived
and worked. Recognition came his way
in 1952 when he was honoured with a
prize from Andre Breton, renowned as
the pope of surrealism, on behalf of the
Journale d’art.

Akbar Padamsee’s artistic odyssey is
a captivating exploration across var-
ious chosen genres, including proph-
ets, heads, couples, still-life, grey works,
Metascapes, mirror-images, and ter-
tiaries. Throughout his illustrious career,
Akbar Padamsee received numerous
prestigious awards and recognitions. In
1962, he was honoured with a gold medal
by the Lalit Kala Akademi, followed by a
fellowship from the J.D. Rockefeller Foun-
dation in 1965. In 2010, the Indian govern-
ment honoured him with the prestigious
Padma Bhushan.