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Jan 30, 1913 Budapest, Hungary Died on 05 Dec 1941 (aged 28)
Hungarian Indian artist
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About Amrita Sher Gil
- Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) was an eminent Hungarian-Indian painter.
- She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art.
- Drawn towards painting since a young age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight.
- She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting titled Young Girls (1932). Sher-Gil traveled throughout her life to various countries including Turkey, France, and India, deriving heavily from precolonial Indian art styles and its current culture.
- Sher-Gil is considered an important painter of 20th-century India, whose legacy stands on a level with that of the pioneers from the Bengal Renaissance.
- She was also an avid reader and a pianist.
- Sher-Gil's paintings are among the most expensive by Indian women painters today, although few acknowledged her work when she was alive.
