Sensuality plays a very important role in Sen’s painting and female figures are often fascinatingly and intriguingly dancing with horses.
Women and horse represent an explosive couple, mixing the elegance and frailly of the female body with the power and energy of the horse.
When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.
