Amrita Sher-Gil was born on 30 January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary to Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Jat sikh aristocrat and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, and Marie Antoniette Gottesmann, a Hungarian-Jewish opera singer who came from an affluent bourgeois family. Her parents first met in 1912, while Marie Antoinette was visiting Lahore Her mother came to India as a companion of Princess Bamba Sutherland, the granddaughter of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sher-Gil was the elder of two daughters; her younger sister was Indira Sundaram (née Sher-Gil), born in March 1914), mother of the contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. She spent most of early childhood in Budapest. She was the niece of Indologist Ervin Baktay. Baktay noticed Sher-Gil's artistic talents during his visit to Shimla in 1926 and was an advocate of Sher-Gil pursuing art He guided her by critiquing her work and gave her an academic foundation to grow on. When she was a young girl she would paint the servants in her house, and get them to model for her. The memories of these models would eventually lead to her return to India
Sher-Gil married her Hungarian first cousin, Dr. Victor Egan when she was 25.Dr. Egan had helped Sher-Gil obtain abortions on at least two occasions prior to their marriage She moved with him to India to stay at her paternal family's home in Saraya, Sardar Nagar, Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Thus began her second phase of painting which equals in its impact on Indian art with the likes of Rabindranath Tagore and Jamini Roy of the Bengal school of art. The 'Calcutta Group' of artists, which transformed the Indian art scene, was to start only in 1943, and the 'Progressive Artist's Group', with Francis Newton Souza, Ara, Baker, Gade, M. F. Husain and S. H. Raza among its founders, lay further ahead in 1948] Amrita's art was strongly influenced by the paintings of the two Tagores, Rabindranath and Abanindranath who were the pioneers of the Bengal School of painting. Her portraits of women resemble works by Rabindranath while the use of 'chiaroscuro' and bright colors reflect the influence of Abanindranath
Dr Victor Egan Later Married Nina a Muslim Lady From Whom he had 2 Daughters Eva and Juliet.
Eva Egan The Daughter of Dr. Victor Egan and Nina She Tried her best to Clear Her Father Name from the Scandal of Murder of Amrita Shergill.
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