Amrita Sher-Gill, died in the 1930s.. still a young woman, daughter of an Indian Sikh father and Hungarian mother. She is one of India's foremost painters, her paintings having been donated to the Indian govt. after her death by her European husband. Both of them were in Lahore when she passed away suddenly.
A family in a Punjab village, painted by Amrita..
Amrita travelled to the South of India to paint these images inspired by the Ajanta murals. This one is called 'The Bride's Toilet'.
The painting on 'Brahmacharis' is also part of the Southern journey by Amrita.
When my husband and I travelled to his tiny village called Vishnampet in Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu in 2009, we found a very similar group sitting under a tree at the entrance to the village !
This Hungarian Gypsy Girl was painted by Amrita in Europe.
This painting called 'The portrait of a young man' was presumably done in Europe.
Amrita's husband was a Dr., who continued to serve in Indian villages in Punjab after her death (her father's elder brother and cousins lived in Punjab and they called her heartbroken husband to live near them).
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