Bhupen Khakhar

Bhupen Khakhar was the opposite of anachronistic – modern? That doesn’t seem to cover it. His paintings are sensuous, brave, graceful, perhaps (aphorisms invited) ahead of their time. Born into a middle-class Gujarati family in Bombay in 1934, he trained as a chartered accountant, and only aged 28 did he start to make art. He…