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AMRITA SHER‒GIL
(1913 ‒ 1941)
Boys with Lemons
Signed and dated ‘Amrita Sher‒Gil/ 1935’ (lower right)
1935
Oil on canvas
36 x 22 in (91.5 x 56 cm)
Rs 12,00,00,000 ‒ 18,00,00,000
$ 1,714,290 ‒ 2,571,430
NON‒EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist’s family
EXHIBITED
Amrita Sher‒Gil
, New Delhi: Rabindra Bhavan Galleries and National Gallery
of Modern Art (NGMA), 1 March ‒ 26 April 1970
PUBLISHED
R de L Furtado,
Three Painters
, New Delhi: Dhoomimal Ramchand, 1960, pl. 6
(illustrated)
K G Subramanyan,
Amrita Sher‒Gil
, New Delhi: The Organizing Committee:
Amrita Sher‒Gil Exhibition, 1970, pl. 13 (illustrated)
Baldoon Dhingra,
Amrita Sher‒Gil
, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1984, pl. 7
(illustrated)
Vivan Sundaram ed.,
Amrita Sher‒Gil: A Self‒Portrait in Letters & Writings
,
Volume 1
, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2010, p. 210 (illustrated)
The present lot published in:
Baldoon Dhingra,
Amrita
Sher‒Gil
, New Delhi: Lalit Kala
Akademi, 1984, pl. 7
Vivan Sundaram ed.,
Amrita
Sher‒Gil: A Self‒Portrait in Letters
& Writings, Volume 1
, New
Delhi: Tulika Books, 2010, p. 210
Amrita Sher‒Gil,
New Delhi: Rabindra Bhavan Galleries
and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), 1
March ‒ 26 April 1970
R de L Furtado,
Three Painters
,
New Delhi: Dhoomimal
Ramchand, 1960, pl. 6
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