Born in Baroda, Khakhar grew up in Mumbai and received his B.A. there from Mumbai University before returning to Baroda in 1962. Back in Baroda he earned a Masters in art criticism from the Maharaja Sayajirao University in 1964. He died in 2003. Internationally acclaimed, his work has exhibited across the world, with solo shows at museums and galleries in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Vancouver, Delhi and Mumbai, to name a few, along with numerous group exhibitions worldwide. He was also awarded several honors along the way, including the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship, in New York (1986); and the Indian Government’s Padma Shri in 1984, one of the country’s highest civilian awards.

WORK

You can't please all
by Bhupen Khakhar
1981

First Day in New York
by Bhupen Khakhar
1985

Man with bouquet of plastic flowers
by Bhupen Khakhar
1975

ESSAYS

Notes on the visual sources of my paintings

by Bhupen Khakhar

Dark green leaves with a film of rich Prussian Blue on the corners-dark brown branches extending all over the tree - luscious orange fruit hanging on the branches.

Calendars with Meerabai's face. She resembles Meena Kumari wearing a white sari with cymbals in hands and with full and sensuous breasts

Letters to Krishen Khanna

by Bhupen Khakhar

Bhupen Khakhar to Krishen Khanna

From Bhupen Khakhar, 4, University Residency Bungalow, University Press Area, Baroda 2

Dated: 11th June 1969

. . . How was your show in London - I heard from Sheikh that you stayed with some Lord. I imagined you in a big castle (Darcy’s

Bhupen Khakhar

Notes on the visual sources of my paintings

Letters to Krishen Khanna

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