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Amrita Sher-Gil
(1913 - 1941)

The Sphinx of the Eternal Night



Born on 30th January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary, Amrita Sher-Gil was the first important woman artist to emerge out of India in the 1930s. In her brief life span of 28 years, she led the modern Indian art movement, which was then taken ahead by the Bombay Progressive Artists Group.

A child of a Punjabi landlord father Sardar Umrao Singh Majithia and a Hungarian musician mother, Antoinette, both loyalists to the British Raj, Amrita had...



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  Lot 8 of 130  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
26-27 JUNE 2024

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Amrita Sher-Gil
The Sphinx of the Eternal Night

Inscribed and dated 'The sphinkks[sic] of the eternal night/ Simla/ 5th November/ 1924' and further inscribed in Hungarian (on the reverse)
1924
Pencil on paper
6.25 x 4 in (16 x 10 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist's family

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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