Natvar Bhavsar
ARANG, 2008-2009
Pure Pigments on Canvas
75h x 68.50w in
190.50h x 173.99w cm
Natvar Bhavsar
URMEE II, 2008
Pure Pigments on Canvas
40h x 22w in
101.60h x 55.88w cm
Natvar Bhavsar
OORAA XIV, 2006
pigmentos sobre lienzo
23h x 21w in
58.42h x 53.34w cm
NB0032
VANARAA, 2010
17.91h x 16.93w in
Natvar Bhavsar
VENRA, 1978-83
Oil Pigments on Canvas
57h x 78.25w in
144.78h x 198.76w cm
NB0059
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Born in 1934, Natvar Bhavsar is an Indian-American artist, based in Soho, New York City for nearly 50 years. Bhavsar is noted as an abstract expressionist and colour field artist. His paintings appear in more than 800 private and public collections, including the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, the Library of Congress and the Australian National Gallery. In addition, his works have been purchased and displayed by corporations such as the American Express Company, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, and NBC. Bhavsar and his works have been the subject of books, including Natvar Bhavsar: The Sound of Color, (Robert C. Morgan, 2002) and Natvar Bhavsar: Painting and the Reality of Color, (Irving Sandler, 1999).
EDUCATION
1965 MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, PA
1960 BA Gujarat University, Amdavad, India
1959 Bombay State Higher Art Examination, Bombay, India
1958 Bombay State Higher Art Examination, Bombay, India
HONOURS & AWARDS
2010 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Grant Award for Creative Contributions in the Arts
2000, 2002 Invited as Participant as Cultural Leader to the World Economic Forums in Davos, Switzerland and New York, NY
1987 Vishva Gurjari, Gujarat, India
1980, 1983 Invited as Participant in Executive's Seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Aspen, CO
1975-76 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
1965-66 John D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, New York, NY
TEACHING
1967-69 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Art Instructor
1957-62 Seth C.N. School of Fine Arts, Amdavad, Gujarat, India, Art Teacher
1954-57 Chanasma High School, Chanasma, Gujarat, India, Art Teacher
HG Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present the gallery’s second exhibition since 2014 for renowned abstract expressionist color field painter, Natvar Bhavsar. The retrospective entitled, “Phenomenon”, draws together 20 different works on paper and canvas created by the artist representing the culmination of a body of work that spans over four decades.
HG Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present the gallery’s second exhibition since 2014 for renowned abstract expressionist color field painter, Natvar Bhavsar. The retrospective entitled, “Phenomenon”, draws together 20 different works on paper and canvas created by the artist representing the culmination of a body of work that spans over four decades.
