amrita shergil art

1. GRAPHICS
AMRITASHERGILL

2. BORN-
30 JANUARY 1913, BUDAPEST
DIE-
5 DECEMBER 1941, LAHORE
TRAINING
Grande Chaumiere, Ecole des Beaux-Arts
(1930-1934)

3. EARLYLIFE
IN 1921
Her family moved to summer hill, Shimla in
India, And soon began learning piano and
violin.

4. By the age of nine she along will hersister INDIRA were
giving concerts and acting in plays at shimla’s Gaiety
Theatre at Mall road, Shimla.

Though she was already painting since the age of five she
formally started learning painting at age of eight.

5. Amrita shergill returned to India and began
taking lessons in painting under Ervin Beckley.
But Ervin’s insistence that Amrita should copy
real life models exactly as saw them irked
Amriye and thus her painting stint under Ervin
Beckley was short lived.

6. At the age of sixteen, Amrita shergill sailed to
France to study Art. she took a degree in fine
arts from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. She
also learnt to speak and write French. It was in
France that she started painting seriously.

7. ACHIEVEMENTS
One of the most promising Indian artists
of the pre-colonial era; youngest ever
and the only Asian to be elected as
Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris.
Amrita shergill was a renowned Indian
painter. She was one of the most
charismatic and promising Indain artists
of the pre-colonial era.Most of her
paintings reflect vividly her love for the
country and more importantly her
response to the life of its people.

8. THREE
GIRLS

9. CAMELS,
1941

10. BRAHMACHRIS

11. THE CHILD BRIDE

12. HILL MAN,1935

13. PORTARIAT OF A YOUNG
MAN,1930

14. TWO ELEPHANTS,1940

15. UNE COLLECTE

16. THANKYOU