Two Sisters

One of India’s most important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das is known for his iconic drawings and paintings of horses and bulls, as also of women and their vulnerabilities. Beginning with the 1980s and reaching its climax in the ’90s, Das created a surreal world of women in their forced humiliation through his unique style, colour and palette; this work, Two Sisters, belongs to this phase of the artist’s career. Their deep, dark stares, as one unclothes the other, evoke neither pleasure nor sensuality but provoke a critical intervention on the position of women in society and the history of the male gaze.