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Prabhakar Barwe studied at Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay, and was hailed by art critic Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni as ‘the most notable Indian abstractionist after Gaitonde’. Barwe’s success lay in his ability to explore an unchartered territory of abstractionism in Indian modern art through works that carried elements of surrealism about them, especially when exploring spatial relationships between everyday/nondescript objects. This pencil colour and ink work appears to be a fantastical imagery of a science lab where numbers appear as blurs or fade into a horizon, and where pipette-like flying objects add perspective to the space under consideration.