Oil on canvas painting entitled People Come and Go, created in 1981. 

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

'The placement of the three figures, the artist Bhupen Khakhar, his friend Vallabhbai, and the British artist Howard Hodgkin, recalls the manner in which a film camera would break up a scene in a mid-shot, a close-shot and a close-up, so as to draw attention to a particular person or detail. At the same time the images, even the inanimate ones, are manipulated not for any pictorial syntheses, but for playing out the various interactive possibilities generated by their combinations.'

This work is from the collection of Jyoti Limited, Baroda.

Exhibition history: ‘Contemporary Indian Art,’ Curators: Richard Bartholomew and Geeta Kapur, Festival of India Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London; 1982, Illustrated catalogue.