The early 20th century produced luminaries like Amrita Sher-Gil who, with her audacious paintings of women and rural Indian life, became one of the pioneering female faces in modern Indian art. This archival work — split into two volumes — carefully pieces together Sher-Gil’s life via translated letters and writings, photographs from family albums and sketches of her early works.
Sifting through the pages, one comes across reviews of her works, reproductions of over a 100 of her paintings and excerpts from autobiographies that held a special place in her heart. Edited by Sher-Gil’s nephew and contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram, and with a foreword by eminent author Salman Rushdie, this compilation offers a glimpse into the remarkable life of a painter whose legacy continues to endure.
