Sudhir Patwardhan

Sudhir Patwardhan (b. 1949)

After graduating in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, in 1972, Sudhir Patwardhan moved to Bombay where he took up art alongside his career as a radiologist. His work centres around the city’s working class and often documents the ever-evolving urban landscape that they inhabit. The present lot was painted in 1988, the year the artist began painting a series of plein air landscapes in the Pokharan area of Thane, close to where he lived. Through these paintings, he sought a closer connection with the local community by offering interpretations of familiar scenes. The artist remarks, “[This painting] was done at a time when I was doing landscapes in the Pokharan area of Thane, inspired by Cézanne. These two-Boy (1988) and this work (also called Calf), were a study in the figure-ground relationship. The pattern on the left side (like one finds on a charpai bed) stands for the kind of interweaving of figure and ground that is aimed at in the painting.” (Artist in correspondence, May 2025) - Courtesy Saffronart.cm