Oil on canvas painting entitled Guddo, created in 1980.

Excerpt from Kamala Kapoor, The Art Of Vivan Sundaram, Lustre Press, Roli Books, New Delhi, 2002:

'The Western quotation is visible in the da Vinci-like treatment of the landscape behind the ethereal-looking young girl. References like these blend effortlessly with the archetypal elements of Indian miniature painting, as in the use of luminous colour, in the enlargement and diminishing of figures, in the bending of spatial norms, and in the use of nearness and distancing of narrative sequencing.'

This work is from the collection of Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bhopal.

Exhibition history: ‘Place for People,’ Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay; Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi; 1981, Illustrated catalogue. Inaugural exhibition, Roopankar Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; 1981, Illustrated catalogue.