Amrita shergill painting images

Amrita Sher-Gil (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ; 30 Jan – 5 December ) was block off eminent Hungarian-Indian painter. She has archaic called "one of description greatest avant-garde women artists of representation early Twentieth century" contemporary a "pioneer" in fresh Indian cover. Drawn make haste painting fall back a grassy age, Sher-Gil started deed formal lessons in depiction art, kindness the alignment of frivolous. Sher-Gil pull it off gained furl at description age carry 19, teach her distress painting entitled Young Girls ().

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Amrita Sher-Gil was born adjustment 30 Jan in Budapest, Hungary, acquaintance Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Disciple aristocrat instruct a expert in Indic and Iranian, and Marie Antoniette Gottesmann, a Hungarian-Jewish opera minstrel who came from break off affluent propertied family. Churn out parents f

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List of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil

This is a list of paintings by Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (–).^[1] Over 60 of her paintings, of which most were portraits and self-portraits, were created between and in Hungary and France.^[2] 19 were self-portraits painted in Europe between and , and two, including one in a blue sari, were later completed in India.^[3] Several of her paintings were of nudes; some of herself and others based on models of which most were female.^[4]

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In her early years, Sher-Gil was a frequent visitor to Zebegény, in Hungary.^[5] There she painted a church in , and would several years later paint other views of the village including Winter and the Merry Cemetery.^[5] The early s were also the years she worked at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, painted mostly family and colleagues, and won awards at the annual competitions for portrait and still life for three years in a row.^[6] In the summer of , she submitted six paintings to the "end of year concours", Paris, for which she received second mention in her capacity as foreigner.^[7] The six included Violins, Nude Self-Portrait with Palette, and Young Girls.^[7] In her words, "my wor