Representative work by Amrita Sher-Gil
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Artist

Amrita Sher-Gil

1913–1941 · Hungarian-Indian

  • Beaux-Arts de Paris
  • Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Amrita Sher-Gil combined European modernist training with sustained engagement with Indian subjects and painting traditions. Her brief career produced a powerful body of portraits, village scenes and group compositions that reshaped twentieth-century Indian art.

Painting

Major Works

  • 1935Three Girls
  • 1932Young Girls
  • 1937Bride’s Toilet
  • 1935Hill Women
  • 1937South Indian Villagers Going to Market
  • 1934Self-Portrait as a Tahitian
  • 1935Group of Three Girls
  • 1937Brahmacharis
  • 1938Village Scene
  • 1940Woman on the Charpai

Interviews & Writing

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