Sadanand Bakre

{{Short description|Indian painter and sculptor (1920–1987)}}

{{Infobox artist

| image = Sadanand Bakre.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|11|10|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|12|18|1920|11|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vadodara, Gujarat

| death_place = Ratnagiri, Maharashtra

| known_for = Painting
Sculpture

| nationality = Indian

| movement = Progressive Artists' Group

}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}

Sadanand Bakre (S. K. Bakre) (10 November 1920 – 18 December 2007) was an Indian painter and sculptor.

Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group,{{Cite web|title = Power of imagery - The Times of India|url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/power-of-imagery/articleshow/27991750.cms|accessdate = 2015-07-26}} the pioneers of modern art in India.{{cite web|title=Artist Collectives|url=http://ngmaindia.gov.in/sh-pag.asp|publisher=NGMA, India|accessdate=3 April 2012}} In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting. He had a one-man exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute (1951), another at Gallery One (1959), and four at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery (1969–1975)."[http://www.superhumanism.eu/art-collection/sadanand-bakre/ Sadanand Bakre]", superhumanism.eu. Retrieved 2010-08-16.

Bakre returned to India in 1975. In his later years he became a recluse, but he received a lifetime achievement award from the Bombay Art Society in 2004.{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/what-use-awards-i-just-need-someone-to-talk-to/articleshow/509486.cms | title=What use awards? I just need someone to talk to | newspaper=The Times of India | date=21 February 2004}} He died from a heart attack{{Cite web|title = Sadanand Bakre, pioneer of modern art in India, dead - Indian Express|url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sadanand-bakre-pioneer-of-modern-art-in-india-dead/252265/|website = www.indianexpress.com|accessdate = 2015-07-26}} in Murud-Harnai in the Ratnagiri district in 2007.