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Fruit Vendors 1937 by Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil · 1937

Fruit Vendors 1937

The story

Two women crouch beside their baskets of fruit, draped in saris, their faces in shadow. From Sher-Gil's time in South India in 1937, the painting strips genre scenes down to their essentials — colour, posture, and quiet — refusing both the pretty and the academic.

Artist
Amrita Sher-Gil
Year
1937
Period
Modern
Rights
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