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
Daughter Amrita Sher-Gil (1936)
Daughter Amrita Sher-Gil (1936)
Daughter Amrita Sher-Gil with her paintings (year unknown)
Portrait of SherGil in Simla by his daughter (1935)
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.
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
…Gil was one of the pioneers of photography in India, when he began photography in the early 1890s. After his marriage to the Hungarian opera singer, Marie Antoinette Gottesman-Baktay, the subjects of his photographic works were largely his family – his wife and two daughters, and his own self portraits. He experimented with some of…
Marie Antoinette c. 1910 (Budapest)