Lot 183: NARAYAN SHRIDHAR BENDRE (1910 - 1992)

Signed and dated in Devanagari lower right and inscribed 'Gossips/ N S Bendre' on reverse

37 1/4 by 31 1/4 in. (94.6 by 79.4 cm.)

Oil on Canvas

In the late 1960's, Bendre often painted images of women reading, painting and painting and playing music. He tended to paint familiar scenes of domestic life with little stylization or modeling. 'I belong to this earth. I walk on this earth, and I don't think of anything by this earth. Things here are my kind of library, I am not interested in anything else. As such, I don't create dream paintings. Whatever I have experienced in this world I paint. Other things are not important to me.' (Bendre, 1992.)