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Amrita Sher-Gil
(1913 - 1941)

Untitled



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 28 of 109  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
8-9 JUNE 2016

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Amrita Sher-Gil
Untitled

Charcoal on paper pasted on paper
21.5 x 17.25 in (54.7 x 44 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE:
Acquired from the artist's family, New Delhi
Private Collection, Maharashtra

Category: Drawing
Style: Figurative


 









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