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Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913〔(Great Minds ), The Tribune, 12 March 2000.〕 – 5 December 1941) was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo,〔(Amrita Sher-Gill at ). Mapsofindia.com.〕 and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance;〔(First Lady of the Modern Canvas ) Indian Express, 17 October 1999.〕〔(Women painters at 21stcenturyindianart.com )〕 she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.〔(Most expensive Indian artists ). Us.rediff.com.〕 ==Early life and education== ] Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest, Hungary to Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, and Marie Antoniette Gottesmann, a Jewish opera singer from Hungary. Her mother came to India as a companion of Princess Bamba Sutherland. Sher-Gil was the elder of two daughters born. Her younger sister was Indira Sundaram (née Sher-Gil), mother of the contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. She spent most of early childhood in Budapest. She was the niece of Indologist Ervin Baktay. He guided her by critiquing her work and gave her an academic foundation to grow on. He also instructed her to use servants as models. The memories of these models would eventually lead to her return to India.〔On Amrita Sher-Gil: Claiming a Radiant Legacy By Nilima Sheikh〕 In 1921 her family moved to Summer Hill, Shimla in India, and soon began learning piano and violin, and by age nine she along with her younger sister Indira were giving concerts and acting in plays at Shimla's Gaiety Theatre at Mall Road, Shimla.〔(Amrita Shergill at sikh-heritage ). Sikh-heritage.co.uk (30 January 1913).〕 Though she was already painting since the age of five she formally started learning painting at age eight.〔 In 1923, Marie came to know an Italian sculptor, who was living at Shimla at the time and in 1924 when he returned to Italy, she too moved to Italy along with Amrita and got her enrolled at Santa Annunziata, an art school at Florence. Though Amrita didn't stay at this school for long, and returned to India in 1924, it was here that she was exposed to works of Italian masters.〔(Amrita Shergill Biography at ). Iloveindia.com (6 December 1941).〕 At sixteen, Sher-Gil sailed to Europe with her mother to train as a painter at Paris, first at the Grande Chaumiere under Pierre Vaillant and Lucien Simon and later at École des Beaux-Arts (1930–34),〔(Archives 'Amrita Shergil' project ) www.hausderkunst.de.〕〔(Amrita Sher-Gil profile at ). Indianartcircle.com.〕 she drew inspiration from European painters such as Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin,〔 while coming under the influence of her teacher Lucien Simon and the company of artist friends and lovers like Boris Tazlitsky. Her early paintings display a significant influence of the Western modes of painting, especially as practiced in the Bohemian circles of Paris in the early 1930s. In 1932, she made her first important work, ''Young Girls'', which led to her election as an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933, making her the youngest ever〔(Works in Focus ), Tate Modern, 2007.〕〔(Amrita Shergil at tate ). En.ce.cn.〕 and the only Asian to have received this recognition.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amrita Sher-Gil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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