Mother India is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 – 1941), completed in May/June 1935 in Simla. The painting depicts an Indian peasant mother with her son and daughter, and was one of 33 of Sher-Gil's works displayed at her successful solo exhibition at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held in 1937. There it was priced at ₹500. Under India's Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972), the work is a national art treasure and must stay in the country.[1][2][3][4][5]
See also
References
- ^ Sundaram, pp. 418-422
- ^ Sundaram, pp. 642–647
- ^ Ramaswamy, Sumathi (2010). "6. Daughters of India". The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Duke University Press. pp. 239–243. ISBN 978-0-8223-9153-1.
- ^ Keserü, Katalin (2014). "8. Amrita Sher-Gil: the Indian painter and her French and Hungarian connections". In Dalmia, Yashodhara (ed.). Amrita Sher-Gil: Art & Life : a reader. Oxford University Press. pp. 65–126. ISBN 978-0-19-809886-7.
- ^ Khanna, Stuti (2013). The Contemporary Novel and the City: Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form. Basingstoke: Springer. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-137-33624-8.
Bibliography
- Dalmia, Yashodhara (2013). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life. Gurugram: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-342026-2.
- Khullar, Sonal (2015). Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930 1990. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28367-1.
- Sundaram, Vivan (2010). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Tulika Books. pp. 1–417. ISBN 978-81-89487-59-1.
- Sundaram, Vivan (2010). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Tulika Books. pp. 418–821. ISBN 978-81-89487-59-1.
External links
- "Amrita Sher-Gil (list of paintings held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi)". ngmaindia.gov.in. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
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