Amrita Sher-Gil

Amrita Sher-Gil trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, developing her skills as a figurative painter. After returning to India in 1934, she increasingly made Indian people and everyday life central to her work. Her paintings brought European training into conversation with Indian artistic traditions, creating a distinctive visual language.

Her career was cut short when she died in 1941 at twenty-eight, but her influence on modern Indian painting endured. The National Gallery of Modern Art holds a significant collection of her work. Through her depictions of women and ordinary lives, Sher-Gil made subjects often overlooked by society impossible to overlook on canvas.