Amrita Sher-Gill

About amrita shergill

BORN : 30 january 1913

PLACE : Budapest , hungary
DIED : 5 december 1941 lahore , British india (present day Pakistan)
NATIONALITY : indian
FIELD : painter
TRANING : grande chaumiere ecole des beaux -art (1930 -34)

Amrita Shergil was an artist beyond compare. Though she lived for just 28 short
years, she left an indelible mark on the history of contemporary Indian art.

EDUCATION
IN 1921 her family shifted from hungry to shimla.

Amritas mother recognized her talents and took her to Italy in 1924 where
she got her enrolled at Santa Annunziata, an art school. Here she got exposed
to works of Italian art.
She also went to Paris to train as a painter and was at Ecole des Beaux-Arts
from 1930 to 1934. Here she became acquainted with the works of European
painters like Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.

Works

Group of Three Girls, by Amrita SherGil, won her a gold medal from the
Bombay Art Society. National Gallery
of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi. Oil
on Canvas, 73.5 X 99.5 cm.

This is the painting "South

Indian Villagers Going to
Market" by the Indian artist
Amrita shergill (1913-1941). It
dates from 1937 and is part of
the famous South Indian trilogy
she made following a visit to
the Ajanta caves where she
made a conscious effort to
emulate classical Indian art.

Self-portrait, by Amrita Sher-Gil.

Oil on Canvas, 72 x 92.5 cm.

Young Girls is a painting by the Indian

artist Amrita shergill (1913-1941) that she
made in 1932 while still a student.

Amritas sister Indira sits on the left

clothed in chic European garb, while the
partially undressed figure in the
foreground is a French friend, Denise
Proutaux. This painting was awarded a
Gold Medal at the Grand Salon in 1933

Bride's Toilet, by Amrita Sher-Gil.

Oil on Canvas, 146 x 88.8 cm.

Village scene

Awards and career

She made her first major work, Young Girls in 1932 for which she was
elected as an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933. Thus, she
became the only Asian to have received this honor.
Even while she was in Europe in 1934, she was overcome by a strong feeling
to go back to India. She returned to India and started getting acquainted with
the traditional forms of Indian art. She was influenced by Mughal and Pahari
schools of paintings.

She toured South India in 1937 and produced some paintings which would go
on to become very famous. Brides Toilet, depicting a bride getting ready for
her wedding was one of them.
She was greatly pained by the plight of poor Indians, especially women
around her. She often painted agonizingly thin figures with grim expressions
on their faces to depict the difficult life Indians lived at that time.

Achievements

She is best known for her paintings of sad looking, thin and frail women which
realistically depicted the plight of Indian women of her times. One of her
paintings, Village Scene sold for Rs. 6.9 crores at an auction in New Delhi in
2006.
The government of india has declared her works as National Art Treasures,
and most of them are housed in the National Gallery Of Modern Art in new
delhi.
A postage stamp depicting her painting 'Hill Women' was released in 1978 by
india post.
the Amrita Shergill Marg is a road in lutyens delhi named after her.