Amrita Sher-Gil
Hungarian-Indian painter (1913-1941) · Artists · Died at 28
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Something wrong?Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started formal lessons at the age of eight.
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Sher-Gil's birthplace, 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest
Sleep, 1932, oil on canvas 112.5 × 79 cm, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
Sher-Gil painting South Indian Villagers going to Market with three of its models, photographed in 1937 at her home in Simla.
Sher-Gil with three of her paintings in Paris
Road named in New Delhi after Sher-Gil
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Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started formal lessons at the age of eight. She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her 1932 oil painting Young Girls. Sher-Gil depicted everyday life of the people in her paintings.
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