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Artist: SUNIL DAS Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 56 × 56 inches Year: 2000 This large canvas sets concealment against disclosure through two figures at opposite corners of the composition. On the left, a woman parts a wall of white drapery with her own hand, an act of self-revelation rather than exposure imposed upon her. Her face and shoulders are modelled in unsettled greens and ochres, set against dark, loosely brushed hair, so that she emerges from shadow only partially, on her own terms. A fine chain rests at her throat, a quiet but pointed detail amid the otherwise gestural handling. In the lower right, a second face appears within a dense field of raw red pigment, painted with none of the tonal ambiguity of the first figure. Fully lit and directly frontal, this presence offers an unmediated visibility that contrasts sharply with the veiled woman's guarded emergence. The same chain motif recurs at this figure's neck, linking the two across the canvas and suggesting a shared condition beneath their differing degrees of exposure. The surrounding field remains intentionally unresolved. Passages of scumbled white, loose pencil notation, and a stray geometric cube interrupt the drapery, denying the composition any single narrative closure and holding the tension between concealment and disclosure permanently unsettled.