Lot#18 || Prabhakar Barwe (1936-1995)
UNTITLED (Abstract)

PROVENANCE
Eminent collection Mumbai.

CATALOGUE NOTES
Prabhakar Barwe was a self-effacing artist who extensively explored the relationship between space and form. Born in 1936 in Maharashtra to a family of artists Barwe honed his skills at the Sir J.J. School of Art. After he received his diploma in 1959 Barwe worked with the Weavers' Service Centre for over 20 years designing textiles. Prabhakar Barwe was known as a symbolic abstractionist but did not conform to the mainstream notions of modernism and abstractionism.