Amrita 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
Sher-Gil in 1936
Sher-Gil's birthplace, 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest
Young Girls, 1932, oil on canvas, 133×164 cm, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
Sleep, 1932, oil on canvas 112.5 × 79 cm, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
Marie Antoinette Gottesman
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Marie Antoinette Gottesman was a Hungarian socialite, opera singer, sister of Ervin Baktay, wife of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and mother of the artist Amrita Sher-Gil and her sister Indira Sundaram.
Amrita Sher-Gil
…Sher-Gil Majithia, a Punjabi Indian Jat Sikh aristocrat from the Majithia Shergill family and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, and her mother was Marie Antoinette Gottesman, a Hungarian-Jewish opera singer who came from an affluent bourgeois family. Her parents first met in 1912, while Marie Antoinette was visiting Lahore…
Marie Antoinette c. 1910 (Budapest)