Amrita Sher-Gil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungarian Indian artist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1913

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1941

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) was an eminent Hungarian-Indian painter.
She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art.
Drawn towards painting since a young age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight.
She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting titled Young Girls (1932). Sher-Gil traveled throughout her life to various countries including Turkey, France, and India, deriving heavily from precolonial Indian art styles and its current culture.
Sher-Gil is considered an important painter of 20th-century India, whose legacy stands on a level with that of the pioneers from the Bengal Renaissance.
She was also an avid reader and a pianist.
Sher-Gil's paintings are among the most expensive by Indian women painters today, although few acknowledged her work when she was alive.