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Manjit Bawa | Indian artist, 67
Manjit Bawa, 67, a leading Indian artist whose work highlighted peaceful coexistence, died yesterday at his New Delhi home after three years in a coma following a stroke.
He studied at the School of Art in New Delhi and worked as a silkscreen painter in Britain, where he also studied between 1964 and 1971. Often using animal imagery - tigers and lambs sharing space - he sought to convey the message that people could coexist with animals in nature, said art critic Ena Puri, who wrote a biography of Mr. Bawa
(see artworks via http://go.philly.com/bawa)
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His canvases were distinguished by their colors - the ochre of sunflowers, the green of paddy fields, the red of the sun, and the blue of the mountain sky, she said.
- AP