New Delhi: Amrita Sher-Gil has been called many things: a feminist before her time, a cosmopolitan who moved between Paris and Punjab, to the artist who made brown bodies visible with dignity and ...

During Amrita Sher-Gil’s brief but intense lifetime, the Hungarian-Indian artist tirelessly embraced her passion for painting, creating groundbreaking Modernist paintings that have influenced ...

Like many artists throughout history, Amrita Sher-Gil was a name not known by many in her day, despite her impressive talents and achievements, but she has reached a high caliber of posthumous success ...

New Delhi | Filmmaker Mira Nair on Tuesday announced her new film "Amri", a biopic on renowned Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, with actor Anjali Sivaraman headlining a cast that also ...

Goethe-Institut Berlin Neue Schönhauser Str. 20 10178 Berlin Tel +49 - 30 - 25906-424 Fax +49 - 30 - 25906-400 berlinkultur@goethe.de The exhibition tells the story of an Indian artist family of three ...

The Indian artist turned her back on Western success to follow her calling where she felt it was needed, ultimately changing the course of Indian art. Amrita Sher-Gil was a phenomenon. The ...

Capturing the essence of Amrita Sher-Gil’s life in a matter of 60 minutes is no easy feat. In spite of the volumes written about the avantgarde modernist, her life remains an enigma—a woman at the ...

A long-forgotten painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India’s most important modern artists, is going under the hammer for the first time. The rediscovered portrait is expected to fetch up to $2.8 ...

If art is the reflection of society at large, then its use and consumption is symptomatic of individual indulgences. In the 21st century though, art is democratic, filtered, even altered to adjust ...

NEW YORK, November 29, 2010 - The life and work of Amrita Sher-Gil (b. 1913-1941), one of India's most renowned 20th-century painters, were made vividly present in an evening of film, readings, and ...

A rare work by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), who was nicknamed the “Indian Frida Kahlo,” was among the top sellers at “Boundless: Mumbai,” the inaugural sale for Sotheby’s India ...

In a rare sculpture of tigers, the manifold skills of the artist Amrita Sher-Gil reveal themselves. Known mainly for her luminous paintings, her work changed the face of modern art and paved the ...