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skirt with a blouse. My mother, Lady Buta Singh (Mahinder Kaur), was a great friend of Amrita's. She spent most afternoons at our
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Mann recalled that she could not stop fidgeting and Sher-Gil kept asking her to "sit still!". The painting depicts her wearing striking blue and staring into space. Her slicked-back thick black hair exposes her ear, and her closed lips are red, and full in body. It is set on a background of
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canvases. Her most fascinating subjects are women and children." In an essay he wrote after her death, he called her a "miraculous marriage of Indian and
Western, brought up in the discipline of western painting, suffused in her mental make-up with Indian feeling and attitudes".
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Mann's mother disliked the painting, seeing it as not a true likeness of her daughter. She asked for it to be painted over. Mann recalled "mummy didn't like it at all. She asked Amrita to take the portrait with her and paint over it if she wanted". According to artist
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Amritsar's natural parkland and has an older woman in pinkish, positioned at the back towards the left; added at a later date. The date and Sher-Gil's signature are seen at the lower left of the painting.
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Why Now?: The Euro-U.S. Canon Adopts
Tarsila do Amaral and Amrita Sher-Gil Almost 90 Years Later
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Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings
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859:. 7 December 1941. p. 4.
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94:(1913 – 1941). Under India's
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