Akbar Padamsee (b. 1928)

In a retrospective essay on Akbar Padamsee, Eunice de Souza writes 'most of the figures evoke a sense of vulnerability and anguish, yet none of them are simple victim figures.  They are not merely alone, but essentially separate from the viewer...This separateness is so persistent a feature of the paintings that one is forced to ask whether it arises out of a sense of the privacy of the self, or an uncompromising existential search in which each man or woman is irrevocably alone.'