Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (1924 – 2001) is revered as one of India’s foremost abstract painters. An artist of singular stature, Gaitonde was known to fellow artists and audiences as a man of uncompromising integrity of spirit and purpose. A man who never addresses the camera, Gaitonde’s stringent attachment to the codes of painting and the ethics of being a painter distinguished his aesthetic worldview.