One of India's important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das rose to prominence with his drawing of bulls & horses between 1950 to 62 when he went to Spain and got fascinated by the bull fights. Das came from a middle class family. A French art scholarship with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts took him to Europe. Das' paintings have also been influenced by his study of sculpture at Santiniketan, Kolkata, and his study of graphic art in Paris. Das's paintings not only express the physical attributes of his subjects but also their associative ones. Every once in a while he paints human beings, but his depiction of the human anatomy is skewed, to a point that it almost borders on macabre surrealism. For example, his series on women with mysterious, tantalising eyes - all oil on canvas, the portraits convey, in various forms including the erotic, the pressures women are subject to.