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
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
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Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia was an Indian aristocrat, scholar of Sanskrit and philosophy, and photographer. He was known as one of the pioneers of photography in India, leaving behind over 3,000 pri
Amrita Sher-Gil
…Amrita Sher-Gil was born Dalma-Amrita on 30 January 1913, at 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her father was Umrao Singh 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…
Daughter Amrita Sher-Gil (1936)
Daughter Amrita Sher-Gil with her paintings (year unknown)
Portrait of SherGil in Simla by his daughter (1935)