Background
Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists" Group, the pioneers of modern art in India.
Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists" Group, the pioneers of modern art in India.
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Artist
In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting. He had a one-man exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute (1951), another at Gallery One (1959), and four at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery (1969–1975). Bakre returned to India in 1975.
He died from a heart attack in Murud-Harnai in the Ratnagiri district in 2007.