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Lot 15
Hari Ambada Gade (1997 - 2001)
Estimate : 7,00,000 - 12,00,000
Object Title:
Baroda Market
Medium:
Watercolour on Paper
Signature:
Signed in English (lower right) 'Gade'. Title inscribed on verso.
Object Title :
Baroda Market
Dimension:
16 x 14.6 in. / 40.5 x 37.2 cm
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Hari Ambadas Gade graduated from Nagpur University as a student of Science, but soon his interests in art took over and he enrolled part time in the Nagpur School of Art while simultaneously teaching at the Spencer Training College in Jabalpur. In 1947, Gade along with his companions and friends F N Souza, M F Husain, K H Ara, S K Bakre and S H Raza founded the Bombay Progressive’ Artists’ Group. ‘Aligning with the Group’s ideologies, Gade rejected representing nationalist symbols and instead focussed on making abstract compositions, depicting townships and cityscapes where the colours bleed out hinting to the perfect mix of land and nature in our cities.’

Landscape and cityscapes became and important thematic engagement for Gade, eventually adopting an abstract mode of work. ‘Apart from his prolonged preoccupation with landscapes, which included those of Kerala, Indian monsoons and Rajasthan (Udaipur), his oeuvre included painting the slums and poverty of Bombay in the 1950s, still life and nude portraits. Often referred to as “Painters' Painter”, Gade’s knowledge and use of colour was said to be a class apart. He had an intuitive understanding of the pictorial dimensions of colour. Moreover, due to his interest in Mathematics, his works reflected an almost planned look having influences from Cubism making his Abstraction a very interesting study for artists and students alike.

H. A. Gade passed away in 2001.

(excerpt courtesy: Dhoomimal Gallery)

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