Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life
โ Scribed by Yashodhara Dalmia
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Beautiful and brilliant, Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times with her love affairs and unconventional ways. In this fascinating biography, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia paints a compelling portrait of the artist who, when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty-eight, left behind a body of work that establishes her as one of the foremost artists of the century and an eloquent symbol of the fusion between the East and the West
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