Amrita Sher-Gil IV
Last, Unfinished Painting, 1941
"However, in reality it is fortunate that Hitler is not in India, and consequently not in a position to dispose of art and artists in this country, because the likelihood is, that were he here, I would be clapped into jail instead of the perpetuators of third-class Western art... For Hitler simply loves the latter and detests any manifestations of good modern art or literature, with all his being. Yes, it is dreadful to think of Paris in German hands but what preoccupies me still more is what is going to happen to Modern French Art? What has already happened to the younger elements in French painting, youths who though not as yet universally known, were known to me and a few others, and whose death would mean an irreplaceable loss to the French painting of the Future?"
Amrita Sher-Gil, January 16, 1940