He taught at Jabalpur's Spencer Training College for five years before completing a Diploma and then a Masters in Art during 1949-50.

[6] Gade had an interest in science and mathematics and he read several works by Roger Fry on painting techniques and aesthetics.

[10] Gade was one of the six founding members of the Progressive Artists' Group and remained its part until its dissolution in 1956.

[4] In the late 1950s, he founded the Bombay Group of Artists which had K. K. Hebbar and Bal Chhabda among its members.

Several of his works are with the National Gallery of Modern Art and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.