Oil on canvas painting entitled Arabesque, created in 1989. 

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

'A painting that weaves intertextual webs with its densely packed images, patterns, and textures. Whether emerging through accumulated strata or dissolving apparition-like into the shadows of memory and time, meanings are glimpsed between the variously styled figures of the three women and the series of social and cultural allusion they engender.'

This work is from the collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

Exhibition history: 'Paintings,' Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi; Gallery Chemould, Bombay; 1990, Illustrated catalogue.