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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt."
-Leonardo Da Vinci
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Pablo Picasso
"You use a glass mirror to see your face,you use works of art to see your soul."
- George Bernard Shaw
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Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913– 5 December 1941) was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands on a par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.
In 1934, while in Europe she "began to be haunted by an intense longing to return to India [...] feeling in some strange way that there lay my destiny as a painter", as she later wrote about her return to India the same year.[17] She began a quest for the rediscovery of the traditions of Indian art which was to continue till her death. In May 1935 in Shimla Amrita met the English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, then working as Assistant Editor and leader writer for the Calcutta Statesman.[18] Both Malcolm and Amrita stayed at the family home at Summer Hill, Shimla and a short intense affair took place during which she painted a casual portrait of her new lover, the painting now with the National Gallery in New Delhi. By September 1935 Amrita was seeing Muggeridge off as he travelled back to England for new employment, the parting timely and no doubt of relief to them both.[19] She left herself for travel in 1936 at the behest of an art collector and critic, Karl Khandalavala, who encouraged her to pursue her passion for discovering her Indian roots.[14] She was greatly impressed and influenced by the Mughal and Pahari schools of painting and the cave paintings at Ajanta.
South Indian Villagers Going to Market, 1937.
Self Portrait
A rare self portrait of modernist painter Amrita Sher-Gil created in 1931 sold for around Rs 17 crore in London at an auction by international auction house Sotheby’s, which posted sales of around Rs 49 crore. “The Modern and Contemporary South Asia Art auction, which was part of the Indian Art Week in London set new records for four artists, including Gagendranath Tagore, Prodosh Das Gupta, Gieve Patel and Nasreen Mohamedi,” auctioneers said today.crore in London at an auction by international auction house Sotheby’s, which posted sales of around Rs 49 crore.
“The Modern and Contemporary South Asia Art auction, which was part of the Indian Art Week in London set new records for four artists, including Gagendranath Tagore, Prodosh Das Gupta, Gieve Patel and Nasreen Mohamedi,” auctioneers said today.
Village scene
It was during her stay at Saraya that she painted the Village Scene, In the Ladies' Enclosure and Siesta all of which portray the leisurely rhythms of life in rural India. Siesta and In the Ladies' Enclosure reflect her experimentation with the miniature school of painting while Village Scene reflects influences of the Pahari school of painting.Although acclaimed by art critics Karl Khandalavala in Bombay and Charles Fabri in Lahore as the greatest painter of the century, Amrita's paintings found few buyers. She travelled across India with her paintings but the Nawab Salar Jung of Hyderabad returned them and the Maharaja of Mysore chose Ravi Varma's paintings over hers.
