Prabhakar Barwe was born in Maharashtra in 1936 and received his diploma from the Sir J J School of Art in 1959 He held several solo exhibitions including one at Wiscons in US in 1963 Barwe participated in Indian Painters`, Zurich 1970; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 1975; International Bieimale Manton, France, 1976; Modern Indian Painting` Hirsh horn useum,Washington, 1983 `Six Indian Painters` Titograd Ankara, Istanbul, 1985 and International Biennale, Chile in 1989 He was given the `Yomiuri Shim bun` Award, Tokyo in 1969 and the National Award, Lalit Kala Academy in 1976 Barwe died prematurely in 1996 A symbolist abstractionist, Barwe`s paintings had bits and pieces of objects emerging as if of their own accord, from the unconscious Emphatically pictorial, the conjunction of form and space created inexplicable new associations In his later works the human form had begin to appear almost as the self`s representativeBarwe lived and worked in Mumbai