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Amrita Sher-Gil
(1913 - 1941)

Self-Portrait



Born on 30th January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary, Amrita Sher-Gil was the first important woman artist to emerge out of India in the 1930s. In her brief life span of 28 years, she led the modern Indian art movement, which was then taken ahead by the Bombay Progressive Artists Group.

A child of a Punjabi landlord father Sardar Umrao Singh Majithia and a Hungarian musician mother, Antoinette, both loyalists to the British Raj, Amrita had...



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  Lot 32 of 43  

KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE FUNDRAISER AUCTION | MUMBAI, LIVE
31 OCTOBER 2017

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Rs 23,00,000
$35,938




ARTWORK DETAILS

Amrita Sher-Gil
Self-Portrait

Dated '4.10.1927' (lower right)
1927
Pencil on paper
11.5 x 9.75 in (29.2 x 24.8 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

Category: Painting


 









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