On December 21, 2000, a 92-year-old Pralhad Anant Dhond, ailing from cancer, thought death was imminent. So, he summoned his son and told him to buy three imperial-sized sheets of paper. "I want to draw something till it's physically possible," he said. Dhond lived through that day and three new watercolour paintings emerged out of his Kalanagar studio. Those were the last of his work. He passed away on April 21, 2001.

Those three works, along with 108 others are currently on display at the Jehangir Art Gallery Auditorium to commemorate his 111th birth anniversary. "He worked on those three paintings by using his left hand to support the right," grandson Kedar Kamat, 48, says, standing in front of Dhaval Resha, a pleasant washed out seascape that features Dhond's signature white line.