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"Like a seed , we must die to self to bear fruit-
so others may find life in God through us."

-John 12:24

Painting by Amrita SherGil
"Three girls"

..post dedicated to the daughters...

(Painting taken from Google)
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Self Portrait by Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian) - Oil on canvas / 1930 - National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #Art #FemaleArtist #OilPainting #WomensArt #PortraitofaWoman #artwork #AmritaSher-Gil #Sher-Gil #SherGil #NationalGalleryofModernArt #SelfPortrait
This painting is from a series of self portraits in the early 1930's while Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (sometimes spelled Shergil) was still a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France that represented her many moods. She sits comfortably, with her right hand prominently on her hip, looking directly at us in style that is expressive and somewhat impressionistic. The artist's brushstrokes are visible, and the colors are rich and slightly muted, predominantly warm earth tones with hints of purple and blue in her clothing and headwear. She has positioned herself slightly off-center, creating a send of intimacy which draws us into eye contact with her. She wears a dark reddish-brown, collared dress and matching turban in similar tones of deep maroon. A lavender beaded necklace is around her neck is one of the color accents. Her expression is serious and somewhat reserved as shadows cover part of her light brown facial features highlighted by bright red full lips, thick eyebrows, straight bulb nose, and rosy cheeks. The painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, India, but has been part of exhibitions over the past 20 years in Munich, Paris, and London which highlighted Sher-gil's trailblazing role and inspirational impact she had during her brief life that ended far too soon at the age of 28. Sher-gil has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in art, at the age of 8 and first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting titled "Young Girls." She traveled throughout her life, drawing heavily from precolonial Indian art styles and its current culture. Sher-Gil's legacy stands on a level with that of pioneers from the Bengal Renaissance -- although few acknowledged her work when she was alive.
April 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Sringara by Amrita Shergil
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Judi Dench
India Fantastique Launch, 2012
by AbuSandeep
Photographer: Ram Shergil

*I love this photo!

#JudiDench #IndiaFantisque #PhotoSession #AbuSandeep
July 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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“Group of Three Girls” by Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian Indian) - Oil on canvas / 1935 - National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #art #artText #arte #AmritaSher-Gil #AmritaSherGil #SherGil #Sher-Gil #NGMA #IndianArt #NationalGalleryOfModernArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
Painted in 1935, soon after Hungarian Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil returned to India from her studies in Paris, France, this work is often described as a turning point in her career. She moved away from European academic finish toward a more distilled, modern language shaped by Indian subjects, compressed space, and broad zones of color. The painting is also known as “Three Girls” and has been discussed under related titles, including “The Three Women.” Three young women sit close together against a spare, warm background, their skin modeled in soft brown and clay tones. Each wears draped clothing in earthy reds, creams, and muted pinks, with dark black hair parted and smoothed back. The figure at left turns slightly inward, her face lowered and contemplative. The central girl sits upright with her expression still and distant. The figure at right leans subtly forward, her head inclined, her body wrapped in a deeper red-orange garment. None of the three meets our gaze. Instead, their downcast eyes and quiet poses create a shared mood of inwardness, gravity, and emotional restraint. Sher-Gil flattens the space so the women feel pressed near the picture plane, emphasizing their presence over setting or anecdote. Rather than idealizing youth, Sher-Gil gives these women dignity, weight, and psychological depth. Their closeness does not read as cheerful intimacy. It feels like shared silence, perhaps even shared burden. That emotional seriousness is part of what made the painting so powerful in the history of modern Indian art. It won a gold medal from the Bombay Art Society and remains one of Sher-Gil’s defining images of South Asian women’s interior lives being depicted with empathy, modernist clarity, and unmistakable force.
March 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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"Self-Portrait in Blue Sari" by Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian) - Oil on canvas / c 1937 - Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India #WomenInArt #AmritaSherGil #SherGil #KNMA #KiranNadarMuseumOfArt #SelfPortrait #Sher-Gil #artText #IndianArt #AmritaSher-Gil #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
Painted around 1937, after artist Amrita Sher-Gil had returned from Paris and immersed herself in India, this self-portrait belongs to the years she moved between Shimla in the Himalayan foothills, her family estate in rural Uttar Pradesh, and long journeys through South India. Trained in European modernism yet hungry for an idiom rooted in the subcontinent, she studied Ajanta murals, Mughal and Pahari painting, and village life, insisting that “India belongs only to me” as a painterly destiny. Here she casts herself as a modern Indian woman, wrapped in a sari yet bare-armed, with the directness of a city intellectual rather than a conventional bride. The young woman with medium-brown skin sits turned slightly to our left, her large dark eyes steadily peer out with a look of knowledge. Her beautiful face is framed by long black hair and a sheer, midnight-blue veil that drops over her shoulders, a tiny bindi centering her brow. She wears a sleeveless indigo blue sari that pools into broad, textured strokes around her lap. One bare arm angles across her body, the other forearm rests along her knee, her hands rendered as soft, sketchy planes. Against a pale, almost unfinished background, the saturated blues and her luminous full pink mouth pull us toward her interior life rather than surface detail. The loose, unfinished hands and swathes of blue resist salon polish, asserting process and doubt, while her unsmiling gaze confronts both us and the male-dominated art world she was determined to enter. Within just a few years she would paint her great village scenes and die suddenly at twenty-eight (in 1941), yet works like this helped secure her place as a pioneer of modern Indian art and a touchstone for later women artists who use self-portraiture to claim complex, fearless identities.
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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“Two Women” by अमृता शेर-गिल Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian) - Oil on canvas on board / c. 1935-1936 - National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #AmritaSherGil #Sher-Gil #अमृताशेरगिल #SherGil #AmritaSher-Gil #NGMA #artText #IndianArtist #IndianArt
Two women occupy a tall, narrow composition with a striking contrast of poses and garments. At left, a seated woman with deep brown skin, strong red lips, and large almond eyes faces forward with a steady gaze. She is wrapped in layered blue-green drapery and head covering. One hand extends across her lap, fingers holding her knee. At right, a second woman stands in profile, head bowed, wearing a luminous white veil and robe that nearly merges with the pale wall behind her. Her hand rises to her chin in a thoughtful gesture. A broad, simplified green plant enters from the upper left. Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil uses muted creams, gray-greens, blue, and warm ochre, with soft brushwork and flattened space, to create stillness and emotional gravity. These women are not presented as decorative types. They are rendered as distinct presences with one meeting the viewer’s gaze, one turning inward. The composition stages a quiet emotional dialogue through contrasts like seated/standing, frontal/profile, blue/white, and engagement/reflection. The broad empty wall becomes active space, heightening silence and psychological weight. Sher-Gil’s handling of form reflects her synthesis of European modernist structure and an Indian-centered figural vision. The result is intimate yet unsentimental, with dignity carried through posture, stillness, and the careful modeling of hands and faces. Painted in the mid-1930s, this work belongs to the crucial period after Sher-Gil’s return from Paris, when she shifted toward subjects in India and developed the earthier palette and monumental figuration that define her mature style. Born in Budapest to a Hungarian mother and Sikh father, she was in her twenties yet already a formidable painter, using portrait and genre imagery to challenge idealized or colonial ways of seeing. In works like this, women are neither background figures nor symbols alone. They are complex subjects shaped by mood, social reality, and self-possession.
February 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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By the yardstick of these “apolitical”sons of soil types, I suppose even Cornelia Sorabji or Bhikaji Cama or Amrita Shergil were all orthodox, oppressed conservatives and tradwives for wearing sarees in London and Paris cause they felt at home in their bodies and clothes.
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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By Amrita Shergil.
December 1, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Born #OTD Amrita Sher-Gil, also spelled Shergil, (30 January 1913 — 5 December 1941), painter who was one of the pioneers of the modern movement in Indian art.

Self-Portrait, s.d., oil on canvas, 47.4 x 70.2 cm., National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
January 30, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Yesterday’s celebration of general practice was really positive, well done to all the winners at the 2025 London General Practice Awards! Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Houses of Parliament and made the day so special.
Londonwide LMCs Board of Directors gather on Parliament's riverside terrace before the start of the 2025 London General Practice Awards. Dr Lisa-Harrod Rothwell presents Dr Sukhpal Shergil with an award recognising his LMC work in North West London at the 2025 London General Practice Awards. Gill Rogers presents an award to the Great Chapel Street Medical Centre nursing team at the 2025 London General Practice Awards. The crowd watch the 2025 London General Practice Awards.
February 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Amreeta Shergil and Mahesweta Devi are footnotes in history but were pioneering and brilliantly original artists; the fact that Kalpama Chawla was the first Indian American astronaut is also a footnote. Let's demarginalize the #footnotes
December 5, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Feed: "MxMIndia"
By: Our Staff on Thursday, September 4, 2025
JK Maxx Paints launches new brand film
Bringing Jimmy Shergil and Minissha Lamba back in its new campaign
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September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Priyanka Chopra Gives Shoutout To Diljit’s Detective Sherdil Trailer: ‘Looking Forward’

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Last Updated:June 14, 2025, 22:04 IST Priyanka Chopra shared the trailer of Diljit Dosanjh starrer Detective Sherdil, and congratulated producer Ali Abbas Zafar. Priyanka Chopra is looking forward to Diljit Dosanjh starrer Detective Shergil The trailer of Diljit Dosanjh’s highly-anticipated comey-thriller ‘Detective Sherdil’ was released a few days ago. The trailer left fans excited for the film’s release. Earlier, Bollywood stars Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif cheered for the trailer of Detective Sherdil.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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It’s irritating to see Shergil hyphenated. Can the white world leave us the fuck alone and not rename my people?
April 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Actor jimmy shergil sir daddy satyajit singh sir no more he left us at age 90 om shanti
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Saurabh Dwivedi के सामने फैन की किस बात पर शर्मा गए Jimmy Shergil।Tamannaah Bhatia।LT Adda
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December 22, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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RSB Global Celebrates Women’s Day with a Powerful Message on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Gamhariya, March 8, 2025 – RSB Global marked International Women's Day with an inspiring event centered around the theme "Empowered Together: Strength in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion." The program,…
RSB Global Celebrates Women’s Day with a Powerful Message on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Gamhariya, March 8, 2025 – RSB Global marked International Women's Day with an inspiring event centered around the theme "Empowered Together: Strength in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion." The program, organized at RSB Global, Gamhariya, was a vibrant celebration of women’s contributions and a reaffirmation of the company’s commitment to an inclusive workplace. The event was graced by Sadhwi Amarjeet Shergil, Mahamandaleshwar of Kinnar Akhara…
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March 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM