Excerpt of a typed letter from art patron Emmanuel Schlesinger to artist N.S. Bendre. The excerpt appraises the artworks of N.S. Bendre and those of the Baroda Group of Artists that were shown in the exhibition 'Baroda Group of Artists: Second Exhibition of Paintings'.
More details regarding Schlesinger can be found in Shanoor Seervai's 'The Dreamers' published in The Caravan, a journal of politics and culture, on 1 January 2014.
The letter is undated.
The exhibition 'Baroda Group of Artists: Second Exhibition of Paintings' was held at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, from 23 to 31 March 1957. Participating artists included Jyoti Bhatt, Shanti Dave, Himmat Shah, Triloke Kaul, Prafull Dave, Feroz Katpitia, G.M. Sheikh, Prof. Stefan Hirsch, G.R. Santosh, Balkrishna Patel, V.R. Patel, N.S. Bendre, Ratan Parimoo, Vinay Trivedi, and K.G. Subramanyan.
The Baroda Group of Artists was formed in the year 1956 by G.R. Santosh, Ratan Parimoo, K.G. Subramanyan, Prabha Dongre, Shanti Dave, K. Patel, Triloke Kaul, Vinay Trivedi, N.S. Bendre, Balkrishna Patel, Jyoti Bhatt, Prafull Dave, and Ramesh Pandya. The Group had exhibited in various cities like Bombay, Ahmedabad, and Srinagar between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s. Members of the Group changed over the years.
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