Amrita Sher-Gil
(1913 - 1941)

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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Portrait of a Young Man
1930
Oil on canvas
63,3 x 76 cm
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

This painting done by Amrita Sher-Gil in 1930 shows a beautiful likeness of friend and fellow-artist, Boris Tazlitsky. The works shows her painterly skills even when she was a very young student at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Her handling of pigment and surface is quite remarkable.