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Amrita Sher-Gil

Indian artist

Died when: 28 years 309 days (346 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Amrita Sher-Gil

Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) 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 oil painting Young Girls (1932) (shown below).

Sher-Gil depicted everyday life of the people in her paintings.Sher-Gil traveled throughout her life to various countries including Turkey, France, and India, deriving heavily from precolonial Indian art styles as well as contemporary culture.

Sher-Gil is considered an important painter of 20th-century India, whose legacy stands on a level with that of the pioneers from the Bengal Renaissance.

She was also an avid reader and a pianist.Sher-Gil's paintings are among the most expensive by Indian women painters today, although few acknowledged her work when she was alive.


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