Amrita Sher-Gil , a well known painter painted the famous ‘Group Of Three Girls’ in the year 1935. It is a Oil on Canvas painting. She has been called a “pioneer” in the Modern Indian Art. Her place in the trajectory of Indian Modern Art is pre-eminent. Her Aesthetic sensibility shows a blend of European and Indian elements. She was born and brought up in Hungary. At age sixteen she traveled with her mother to Paris to train as a painter and so her early paintings displayed a significant influence of Western modes of painting.

THE PAINTING

The ‘Three Girls’ won the gold medal in the annual exhibition of the Bombay Art Society in 1937. The award launched Amrita, who was to be celebrated later as the first lady of the Indian canvas and influence generations of modern painters in India.

Details

Title :  Group of Three Girls

Creator : Amrita Sher-Gil

Location : Amritsar

Date Created : 1937

Type : Oil On Canvas Painting

The painting shows three colorfully dressed women contemplating a destiny they are unable to change. Amrita Sher-Gil did not sensualise her women but instead portrayed them as facing great adversity yet having the spirit to transcend a destiny that they were unable to change. It also marks Sher-Gil’s move from an earlier academic and realist style of painting that she had learned in Paris towards a flatter style with modern compositions, where line and color are prominently used. In  Three Girls, the girls’ surrounding is not shown. Their situation is made evident through their facial expressions, their body language, and the skillful use of tones. The three girls in the painting were actually sisters and came to meet Amrita in the due course of her stay in India. She was so overwhelmed by them that she actually ended up painting their Portraits.

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