Mother India 1935

Soon after her return to India, after completing her art studies in Paris in 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil set about capturing the poor Indian villagers in her paintings from 1935 onwards. The faces of her subject at this time have their faces and stances steeped in melancholy and are marked by large, sad eyes. Mr. Tandon, from whom this painting had been purchased was a professor at the Allahabad University and had organized an exhibition of Amrita Sher-Gil's paintings in 1937 at the University campus.