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Self-Portrait as a Tahitian
1934
Sher-Gil places herself inside and against Gauguin’s exoticizing tradition. The look is returned by the person being looked at.
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.