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Devdatta Padekar’s works are rendered in the realist style and he is best recognised for his oil paintings. Padekar uses colour in his works to build mood and atmosphere – both in his portraits and his landscapes. In his figurative works, ethereal women and girls often form the central subjects. From 2007 to 2009, Padekar painted a series on ballet dancers at Florence Dance Center in Italy, which combines realistic frames (children at the studio, for instance) with more atmospherically surreal studies that use colour and light to great effect.