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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Amrita Sher-Gil Self-portrait, untitled
1931
Oil on canvas
65,1 x 54 cm
Private collection
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The untitled self portrait by Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), is an oil on canvas painting completed in 1931 in Paris, and gifted to her friend Boris Taslitzky. It was created in the same year that she produced portraits of Yusuf Ali Khan, who she was engaged to, and Viktor Egan, her cousin who she later married. In 2015 it was sold for £1.7 million at auction in London.
In Sher-Gil's lifetime, 19 were self-portraits painted in Europe between 1930 and 1934, and two, including one in a blue sari, were later completed in India.

 

 

Portrait of a young man, posted on the 6th of July