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Akbar married Solange Gounelle, in Paris in 1954. The couple had one daughter, Raisa Padamsee. Akbar moved to India in 1968 and lived and worked in Mumbai with his wife Bhanumati Padamsee [7]
In 2010, he was awarded the Padama Bhushan by the government of India. In the last years of his life, Padamsee and his wife Bhanu moved into the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, where he died in January 2020 at the age of 91.
Jan 10, 2020 · Akbar Padamsee, whose six-decade output of paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and film made an inestimable contribution to the development of modernism in postcolonial India, died this week at the age of ninety-one.
Jan 13, 2020 · Akbar Padamsee, who was preeminent in the development of Indian modernism, has died. Over seven decades his work spanned painting, prints, photographs, sculpture and film.
Jan 7, 2020 · While Mumbai, a city he called home, was in the process of putting together two shows this week, 91-year old artist Akbar Padamsee passed away peacefully in Coimbatore on Monday evening.
Indian artist, Akbar Padamsee (1928 – 2020) was a true pioneer of Modern Art and a first-generation postcolonial artist and was a part of the Progressive Artists’ Group. Padamsee’s first solo show in India was held at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1954. His early portraits in varied mediums demonstrate a quasi-spiritual style of working.
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Fondly remembered as the “thinker’s artist,” Akbar Padamsee was one of the pioneers and stalwarts of Indian modern art. He was not just a prolific painter with a highly refined aesthetic – his impressive oeuvre also covered a range of different interests, including photography, sculpture and film.
