Amrita Sher-Gil: Icon Cotton ‘Urban Kitsch’

‘Urban Kitsch’

and ‘Escuela Flora’ at Flora ars+natura (Bogotá

Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time

But you’ve definitely never seen a breviary like this one

an intellectual tastemaker

Amrita Sher-Gil: Icon Cotton ‘Urban Kitsch’About the artist Amrita Sher Gil is among India's first woman painters to make a mark at national and international levels. She was an enigmatic personality, with a mixed nationality (half Hungarian, half Sikh). Her extended stays in Paris where she studied, Simla (her summer getaway) and Budapest (her mother's hometown) combined to influence her work, in a dazzling palette. This catalogue was produced for Amrita Shergill's exhibition Amrita Sher Gil: