Oil on canvas painting entitled The Sher-Gil Family, created from 1983-84. 

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

'The painting is a reconstruction....What interested me was the aspect of locating the self in the world, though not in any narcissistic, self-centred manner....One way of particularising this was to start with people nearest to you.... In the seeming order, there is a sense of sudden disorder..as if a collapse were imminent...as if the light is about to go out....It is based around 1946; and there are links to colonial India....It also has a European connection, a Chekhovian aspect to it.' (Vivan Sundaram, in the 1986 Mumbai interview)  

This work is from the collection of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram.

Exhibition history: 'Coups De Coeur,' Halle Sud, Geneva; 1987.