Group of Three Girls
Painted the year after she came home.
- Artist
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 99.5 cm
- Where it is
- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Three young women sit close together, almost filling the canvas. One in pale green looks down; the two in red and orange look past each other. Nobody speaks and nothing happens. The weight of the picture is in the colour and in the stillness of the faces.
Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913 to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian mother, trained in Paris, and was elected an associate of the Grand Salon there in 1933, its youngest member. She came back to India at the end of 1934, saying she felt her future as a painter lay there. She painted this the next year, and it won her a gold medal from the Bombay Art Society.
She died in Lahore in 1941, aged 28. The Government of India has declared her works National Art Treasures, and most are in the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
