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Bhupen Khakhar(also spelled Bhupen Khakkar, born Bombay10 March 1934 died Baroda8 August 003! Bhupen

Khakhar"as a leading artist in #ndian contemporary art$ %e "or&ed in Baroda, and gained international recognition 'or his "or&$

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+ha&hars o'ten openly homose-ual themes attracted special notice$ %omose-uality "as something that at the time "as rarely

addressed in #ndia$ .he artist e-plored his o"n homose-uality in e-tremely personal "ays, touching upon both its cultural

implications and its amorous and erotic mani'estations$ +ha&har painted homose-ual lo/e, li'e, and encounters 'rom a distincti/ely

#ndian perspecti/e$)*

#n the 1990s +ha&har began e-perimenting more "ith "atercolours and gre" increasingly con'ident in both e-pression and

techniue$)8*%e 'ound himsel' portrayed as 2the accountant2 in alman ushdies no/el The Moor's Last Sigh$ +ha&har returned the

'a/our by later ma&ing a portrait o' the author that he called The Moor, and "hich is no" housed "ithin the5ational 6ortrait 7allery,

ondon$)9*#n You Can't Please All)10*(1981 ondon, +noedlers! a li'e:si;e na&ed 'igure, a sel':portrait, "atches 'rom a balcony, as

'ather, son and don&ey enact an ancient 'able, "inding through the to"nscape in continuous narration$

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#n the year 000, +ha&har "as honoured "ith the 6rince laus A"ard)*at the oyal 6alace o' Amsterdam$Among other honours,

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