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1913 Budapest, Hungary - 1941 Lahore, India. Known for: Modernist figure, genre and self-portrait painting.
Amrita Sher-Gil is considered to be one of India’s most celebrated and gifted artists of the pre-colonial era. Born in 1913 in Budapest, she grew up in a cultured and intellectual family who... Read full biography
Amrita Sher-Gil is considered to be one of India’s most celebrated and gifted artists of the pre-colonial era. Born in 1913 in Budapest, she grew up in a cultured and intellectual family who initiated and supported her early interest in art. Her Hungarian-Jewish mother, Marie-Antoinette was a... Read full biography
Amrita Sher-Gil is considered to be one of India’s most celebrated and gifted artists of the pre-colonial era. Born in 1913 in Budapest, she grew up in a cultured and intellectual family who initiated and supported her early interest in art. Her Hungarian-Jewish mother, Marie-Antoinette was a socially ambitious woman who was an accomplished pianist and singer. Sher-Gil's aristocratic Sikh father who was more reserved in temperament was a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian literature and a reader... Read full biography
Amrita Sher-Gil is considered to be one of India’s most celebrated and gifted artists of the pre-colonial era. Born in 1913 in Budapest, she grew up in a cultured and intellectual family who initiated and supported her early interest in art. Her Hungarian-Jewish mother, Marie-Antoinette was a socially ambitious woman who was an accomplished pianist and singer. Sher-Gil's aristocratic Sikh father who was more reserved in temperament was a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian literature and a reader of Indian philosophy. From an early age Sher-Gil had shown an aptitude for drawing. “It seems to me that I never began painting that I have always painted. And I have always had, with a strange certitude, the conviction that I was meant to be a... Read full biography
Amrita Sher-Gil is considered to be one of India’s most celebrated and gifted artists of the pre-colonial era. Born in 1913 in Budapest, she grew up in a cultured and intellectual family who initiated and supported her early interest in art. Her Hungarian-Jewish mother, Marie-Antoinette was a socially ambitious woman who was an accomplished pianist and singer. Sher-Gil's aristocratic Sikh father who was more reserved in temperament was a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian literature and a reader of Indian philosophy. From an early age Sher-Gil had shown an aptitude for drawing. “It seems to me that I never began painting that I have always painted. And I have always had, with a strange certitude, the conviction that I was meant to be a painter and nothing else.” (Amrita Sher-Gil, ‘Evolution of My Art’, Y.Dalmia, Amrita Sher-Gil Art &... Read full biography
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Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Added Description
- •Female Figure and/or Portrait Specialty