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One of twentieth-century India’s greatest painters, Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) was the daughter of an aristocratic Sikh scholar and a Hungarian socialite. She went to Paris in 1929 at the age of sixteen, where she studied art, and visited Hungary regularly. When she returned to India in 1934 she was powerfully drawn to ancient Indian art and to miniature painting.
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Letter in the collection of Amrita’s nephew Vivan Sundaram, reproduced with his permission, translated from the Hungarian for this volume by Margit Koves. A slightly different translation appears in Vivan Sundaram, Amrita Sher-Gil (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1972), 89.
N. Iqbal Singh, Amrita Sher-Gil: A Biography (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1984), 28–29.
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Vanita, R. (2000). Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters (English). In: Vanita, R., Kidwai, S. (eds) Same-Sex Love in India. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05480-7_35
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