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Amrita Sher Gil I

Hill Women, 1935

Amrita Sher-Gil, Hill Women, 1935. Oil on canvas - Collection Vivan und Navina Sundaram, Neu Delhi, © Copyright the artist: Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil, Hill Women, 1935. Oil on canvas - Collection Vivan und Navina Sundaram, Neu Delhi, © Copyright the artist: Amrita Sher-Gil

 

 

"I wish to return primarily in the interests of my artistic development. I now need new sources of inspiration and here you will perceive Duci (Amrita.s Hungarian dimunitive for her father) how utterly mistaken you are when you speak of our lack of interest in India, in its culture, its people, its literature, all of which interest me profoundly and which I wish to get acquainted with and I think I will find it in India. Our long stay in Europe has aided me to discover as it were, India. Modern Art has led me to the comprehension and appreciation of Indian painting and sculpture. It seems paradoxical, but I know for certain that had we not come away to Europe I should have perhaps never realised that a fresco from Ajanta or a small piece of sculpture in the Musée Guimet is worth more than the whole of the Renaissance!"

Amrita Sher-Gil, September 1934