My Friend ‘K’

On the Swing, watercolor on paper, 37.5 x 37.8 cm, 1999

On the Swing, watercolor on paper, 37.5 x 37.8 cm, 1999

Timothy Hyman, "Bhupen," 1996 pencil drawing, 11.8 x 10.4cm

Timothy Hyman: "Bhupen Khakhar and Mister Vallabhai," 1981, oil on prepared paper, 70 x 52.5 cm

Timothy Hyman, "The Ahmedabad Bus," 1994, 1996, oil on board, 54 x 74.5cm

Timothy Hyman, (study for large painting of Bhupen and friends called ":Around Bhupen"), 2008, acrylic on board, 46 x 66 cm. Bhupen looks down from heaven at his friends, Timothy Hyman, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Vivan Sundaram, Geeta Kapur, Meera Mukherjee, Sudhir Patwardan, Amit Ambalal, Nilima Sheikh, Atul Dodiya.

Timothy Hyman, "Bhupen Khakhar," 1996, pencil drawing, 14 x 20 cm

Timothy Hyman, "Bhupen Khakhar,"1996, pen and ink on paper, 14 x 21.5 cm

Nilma Sheikh, "Learning Drawing 8: Bhupen in place of tiger and stag," 2005, tempera on paper, 22.5 x 17.5cm

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, "Bhupen Discussing," 2007 scan by GMS of his 1987, drawing, pen and ink and watercolor, 23.5 x 17 cm. GMS scanned this work for me, and he kept the original.

Amit Ambalal, "Haridwar," 8-9 2000, ink drawing, 20.5cm x 28cm

Sudhir Patwardan, 1990, pencil drawing from sketchbook, obverse. "The drawing is from 1990 when Bhupen and I were in Kerala for an art camp at Ponmudi organized by the painter Ajaya Kumar (who is now dean of the Trivandrum college.) After the camp a few of us travelled around, and this was in a boat in the Alleppy backwaters."

Ram Rahman, "Bhupen Khakhar, Delhi," 1995, silver gelatin print, 31.5 x 25cm

Ram Rahman, silver gelatin print, 58 x 38 cm

Gulammohamed Sheikh, untitled, digital inkjet print, 45 x 19 cm

Jyoti Bhatt, digital photograph ("copied from a contact sheet showing Bhupen Khakhar shot at Kamati Baug (garden) during Feb. 1982, 16th Dec. '08"), 15 x 20 cm

Jyoti Bhatt, digital photograph ("copied from a contact sheet showing Bhupen Khakhar shot at Kamati Baug (garden) during Feb. 1982, 16th Dec. '08"), 15 x 20 cm

Jyoti Bhatt, digital print (taken from contact sheet), 18 x 27 cm,

Jyoti Bhatt, digital print (taken from contact sheet), 18 x 27 cm

Arunanshu Chowdhury, untitled, 2010, mixed media, 33 x 46 cm

Jeanne Hilary, untitled, 2001, digital print, 22 x 22 cm, 1/10

Richard Bartholomew, "Bhupen Khakhar, New Delhi," 1970, silver gelatin print, 35 x 40 cm, reprinted from a restored negative by his son, Pablo Bartholomew, 31 March 2009. RB published an article in the Times of India 22 Feb 1970 about Bhupen's one-man show: "The author of the exhibition, Bhupen Khakhar, posed holding a mike before his own compositin, 'Old man with a Transistor"...

Sajal Sarkar, untitled (Bhupen is in lower left), oil on canvas, 187 x 175 cm

Ram Rahman, December 1995, digital print, triptych, 20 x 89 cm, Arpita Singh, Bhupen, Sunil Kothari, Bhupen with Geeta Kapur, 1/25

Gulammohamed Sheikh, "Book of Memories for Bhupen: Shivmahal Sonata and Residency Rapsody in B Major," accordion book, Digital collage, inkjet, 21 x 354 cms, 2005/2011, 2/5

Gulammohammed Sheikh, "Book of Memories for Bhupen: Shivmahal Sonata and Residency Rapsody B Major," accordion book, digital collage, inkjet, 21 x 354 cms, 2005/2011, 2/5

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar and Howard Hodgkin in the Hodgkin garden in Wiltshire, circa 1982, C-type print in 2013, 20 x 25 cm

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, in Cornwall, circa 1979, printed 2013, C-type print, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979, in Cornwall, C-type print 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979, in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, circa 1979 in Cornwall, Ms.Teresa Gleadowe in foreground, C-type print 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, cira 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar in Cornwall, circa 1979, C-type print in 2013, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, AP

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar, Howard Hodgkin, Julia Hodgkin in the Hodgkins' garden in Wiltshire, circa 1982, C-type print in 2013, 20 x 25 cm

Anthony Stokes, Bhupen Khakhar and Howard Hodgkin in Hodgkin garden, Wiltshire, circa 1982, C-type print in 2013, 20 x 25 cm

Amit Ambalal, Bhupen, April 1995, from the collection of Amit Ambalal

Amit Ambalal, Bhupen, April 1995, from the collection of Amit Ambalal

Amit Ambalal, Bhupen with his sketchbook, from the collection of Amit Ambalal

Amit Ambalal, 1988, from the collection of Ambit Ambalal

Amit Ambalal, Bhupen and Vallabhai, 1988, from the collection of Amit Ambalal

Tarnetar, from the collection of Vivan Sundaram

From the collection of Vivan Sundaram

Kasauli artists' camp, 1980, from the collection of Vivan Sundaram

Kasauli artists' camp, 1980, from the collection of Vivan Sundaram

Bhupen and Nalini Malani, Kasauli artists' camp, 1980, from the collection of Vivan Sundaram

Kasauli artists' camp, 1980, from the collection of Vivan Sundaram

Bhupen and Deepak, his servant Pandu's son

Bhupen with his painting, "Rogues"

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Bhupen with Enrique Juncosa, curator of his retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, 2002.

At the retrospective in Madrid

In a hotel lobby in Madrid during his retrospective. Bhupen had a difficult time walking.

Bhupen at the wedding for Vijay and Jayati Bagodi

"The Man Outside the Box" by Subrat Kumar Behera

"The Man Outside the Box" by Subrat Kumar Behera

Debraj Goswami, “Bhupen Khakhar” woodcut, 2020, A/P.

Debraj Goswami, “Bhupen Khakhar” woodcut, 2020, A/P