“The life of Indians, particularly the poor, pictorially…. with a new technique, my own technique…and this technique though not technically Indian, in the traditional sense of the word, will yet be fundamentally Indian in spirit.”

— Amrita Sher-Gil

Her decision after coming to India in 1935.
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Hungarian Indian artist 1913–1941

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