Background
Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949.
Patwardhan was born in Pune, Maharashtra in 1949.
In 1972 he graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist in Thane from 1975 to 2005. After 2005 he became a full-time artist. The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor.
Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai.
Roopankar Museum, Bhopal. Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Collection, Mumbai.
The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections. "Aspects of Modem Indian Art" Oxford, United Kingdom 1982
Contemporary Indian Art, festival of India, London, 1982
Seven Indian Artists, Hamburg, West Germany, 1982
Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, New York, 1985
Festival of India, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1986
"Coupe de Coeur" Geneva, 1987
"Gadyaparva Exhibition" Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1990), "Parallel Perceptions", Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (1993)
"Contemporary Indian Painting from the Herwitz Family Collection Participant I, auction by Sotheby"s, New York, United States of America (1995, 96)
"Contemporary Indian Painters 96" Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1996)
"Charcoal & Conte" Birla Century Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997), Icons of the Millennium (Lakeeren Art Gallery), Mumbai
"Extreme Gourmet" Indigo, Lakeeren, Mumbai and Century City, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2001).