Amrita and Her Relatives with 'Painted Figure'

This work is from the Re-take of Amrita series. 

Excerpt from Vivan Sundaram, Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2001:


'To add to the biographical section in the Preface, Sir Sunder Singh Majithia, Umrao Singh’s younger brother, managed all the jagir lands given to their father by the British in Saraya, near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Amrita often went from Shimla to her uncle's estates where, in the last two years of her life, she painted some of her most memorable paintings. This photograph was taken in Saraya around 1940 by Victor Egan. In my re-take I include one of the figures from Hill Women, a painting done by Amrita in Shimla in 1935. The other women flanking Amrita are Sardarni Kirpal Singh (left), daughter-in-law of Sunder Singh, and Kirpal Singh’s daughter Joji (right), a close cousin whose portrait Amrita has painted.'

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Online

Publication/Creation date

2001

Creation place

India

Medium

Digital photomontage, printed by Epson Stylus Pro with Ultra Chrome K3 inks on smooth fine art paper, Epson c

Dimension

38.1cm x 54.1cm

Content type

artwork documentation

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Amrita and Her Relatives with 'Painted Figure'