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Young Girls
1932
Two women sit together yet seem psychologically far apart. Sher-Gil’s Paris training is already being turned toward interior life.
Artist field note
Amrita Sher-Gil
Modernism looks back from India.
Appears inIndia
The five in one idea
Sher-Gil absorbed European modernism, then changed its direction by painting Indian subjects with psychological weight rather than exotic distance.