Maqbool Fida Husain b. 1915 Untitled

 'Husain's women are always enshrouded in an invisible veil, the simplicity of their form countered by their inaccessibility.  They could well be women from his own childhood in a Muslim household, where the feminine presence alternates between the secretive and the visible.  The suppressed yearning could be for his mother, who died when he was only two years old, leaving him feeling permanently bereft.' (Dalmia, 2001, p. 111.)