'In Avinash Chandra's work, sexual images play a vital role...his pictures, with their ardent colours, taut rhythms and poetic images are perhaps the strongest proof we have that Indian painting can be vitally modern yet, through these very qualities, remain deeply and traditionally Indian.' (W. G. Archer, From his introduction to Indian Painting Now, 1965.)

'Avinash Chandra's parents wanted him to study engineering, unaware of his interest in art. Eventually, he took a diploma in painting from Delhi Polytechnic, where he also taught for a few years. Despite two successful shows in India, the art scene in India couldn't hold his interest, and in 1956, he moved to England where he studied the language and technique of Vincent van Gogh and Soutine and drew his inspiration from European city landscapes.

Chandra's recurrent theme has been the female body. He began with elegant line drawings which evolved throughout the 1970s to implicitly, erotic coloured drawings,[as seen in Untitled (Figures)]. Sexual imagery may have played a vital role in his art but was introduced as part of a much larger experience in a wider context. Employing the primitivist troupe, Chandra often reduced female anatomy to shapes as though suspended in a vaccum invaded by phallocentric forms.' (Delhi Art Gallery, India Modern: Narratives from 20th Century Art, Delhi Art Gallery Pvt. Ltd., 2015, p.121.)