In this painting, the artist N. S. Bendre has depicted a marriage procession where the groom is sitting, and the bride is coming with her bridesmaid, rendered with fluid, flat strokes of watercolours delineating the contours of the figures. It is now exhibited in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-02969
- Material
- Ink, Watercolour, Paper
- Note
- Born in 1910 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Narayan Shridhar Bendre attended the State Art School, Indore before getting his Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933. Bendre as an artist avidly practiced landscapes and portraits in an academic style in oil and gouache, particularly conceptualising the village folks and the underprivileged class of the society in the early phase of his artistic career. N. S. Bendre also worked in the company of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij and Benod Behari Mukherjee during his stay in Santiniketan as an Artist in Residence in the year 1945. An ardent traveller, Bendre made a journey in 1947-48 to USA, Europe and other foreign countries getting acquainted with the works of modern masters of the West. The artist then experimented with cubism and expressionism assimilating them with traditional Indian classical and folk art styles. In his later years, in the 1960s, Bendre adopted the Neo- impressionistic technique of pointillism in his works eliminating the details and paying more attention to creating an overall sensory experience in his compositions. N S Bendre joined the Progressive Artists Group, Bombay in 1948. He started teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda in 1950 and later became the Dean of the Faculty of Painting in 1959. One of the famous works- 'Thorn', done during this time in cubist fashion, got the National Award by Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi in 1955. N. S. Bendre received the Padma Shri Award from the President of India in 1969 and was also awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1991.
- Pages
- 25.8 X 40.4 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
