Sudhir Patwardhan
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Sudhir Patwardhan | |
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 Artist Sudhir Patwardhan at Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2014 | |
| Born | Maharashtra, India |
| Education | Armed Forces Medical College |
| Occupation | Artist |
Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.
Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949. In 1972 he graduated in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. [1] He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist from 1975 to 2000.
Career
After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor.[2] Patwardhan's works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections.
