In many ways, the questions that the half-Indian, half-Hungarian artist, Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) was asking defined Indian art. The way she integrated diverse sources and traditions into her work also echoed concerns that Abanindranath Tagore had a generation earlier, even as they were resolved differently. Though her life and career was short, Sher-Gil is considered a pioneering and exceptional figure in modern Indian art history, and as the fascination with her unusual biography has shown, can be studied as an example of how an artist’s life can take on its own mythology.
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