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Narayan Shridhar Bendre was born in 1910 in Indore.  He got his early art education in the State Art School, Indore. Later he obtained his Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933.  Being an enthusiastic traveler he visited many places and captured them on his canvas throughout his career, often with different stylistic means.

His initial interests were conditioned by the quasi-mode-mist landscape painting of Indore School. Later his favorite subjects were landscapes and portraits in oils and gouache.

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He experimented with cubist, expressionist and abstract tendencies. The result of this was his work “Thorn” which won National in 1955.  He combined European modernism with Indian formal thematic reflection in his work with a touch of elegance.  

In 1945 he stayed in Shantiniketan as an artist with Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij, Binod Behari Mukherjee.

In 1948 he left for New York where he exhibited his work in Windermere Galler