| Name
/ Title |
AMRITA SHERGIL |
| Date of
Birth |
January 30, 1913 |
| Date of
Death |
December 05, 1941 |
| Identity |
Indian Painter |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1921: Her family moved to
Summer Hill, Shimla in India.
- 1932: She made her first
important work, Young Girls.
- 1933: Her work, Young
Girls, led to her election as an Associate of the Grand
Salon in Paris, making her the youngest ever and the only
Asian to have received this recognition.
- 1978: A postage stamp
depicting her painting 'Hill Women' was released by India
Post.
- 2006: Her painting Village
Scene sold for ₹6.9 crores at an auction in New Delhi which
was at the time the highest amount ever paid for a painting
in India.
|
| General |
- She was born in Budapest, Hungary, to a Punjabi Sikh
father ( Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat
and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian) and a Hungarian
Jewish mother (a Jewish opera singer from Hungary).
- She is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.
- Her early paintings display a significant influence of
the Western modes of painting.
- Her art has influenced generations of Indian artists and
her depiction of the plight of women has made her art a
beacon for women at large both in India and abroad.
- 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.
- Amrita Shergil Marg is a road in Lutyens' Delhi named
after her.
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