Sunil Das was born in Kolkata in 1939. One of India's important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das rose to prominence with his drawing of horses.

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.

The artist passed away in 2015.