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Lot No. 48

N S BENDRE
1910-1992

UNTITLED
27 x 48 in (68.6 x 122 cm)
Oil on canvas
1966
Signed & Dated: Bottom Right

` 2,00,00,000 - 3,00,00,000
$ 243,902 - 365,853

Provenance: Property from an important
collection based in Mumbai.

N S Bendre’s contribution has played
a vital role in shaping modern Indian
art. In specific, his pointillism creations
earned him the title of being a pioneer of
the technique in India. The process and
the acute skill set required to compose
a painting as such; demands the artist
to master and synthesise the structural
diagram of a painting. N S Bendre had
successfully deciphered this fundament
and created such masterpieces given
his long tenure as a dedicated artist and
teacher. His pointillism artworks got
composed in a pattern of intricate dotwork
that required perfect integration of colour
& form. An avid traveller with an eye for
natural beauty, N S Bendre was greatly
inspired by the poetic landscape of India
and its rural life, and was drawn towards
the simplistic charm of a woman’s world.