Khakhar, Bhopen

(1934 Bombay-8/8/2003 Vadodara) (India)

   Accountant, writer, painter, and art teacher. Primarily self-taught, he produced homoerotic subjects which were sometimes considered controversial.

   Source: Benezit, vol. 7: p. 1213; Geeta Kapur, "Bhupen Kahkhar's watercolors," London Magazine 37, 5 -6 (August-September 1997): 191-194.