Artist field note

Amrita Sher-Gil

Modernism looks back from India.

Appears inIndia
Brahmacharis by Amrita Sher-Gil
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Brahmacharis

1937

Young male ascetics become a study in rhythm, restraint and collective presence.

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.