Amrita
Sher-Gil (1913 –1941) was a 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.
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| Amrita Sher-Gil self-portrait |
Drawn to
painting from an early 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 travelled 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.
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