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Amrita Sher-Gil, Self Portrait with Easel, Oil on Canvas
Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait, 1927-28, Charcoal on Paper
Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 1927-28 Pencil on Paper
Amrita Sher-Gil, Self – Portrait in Blue Sari, c.1937, Oil on Canvas
Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait with Red Background, c.1930, Oil on Canvas
In collaboration with Navina and Vivan Sundaram
'The self in making' examines Amrita Sher-Gil’s self-portraits that were grounded in her self-consciousness of growing up to be an artist and also positioning herself as a modern woman. Her nuanced persona could easily slip from a western outfit into a traditional brocaded sari or masquerade the bohemian and get into roles other than the domestic. She drew a series of self-portraits in pencil when she was barely fourteen, learning the skills to transcribe, transform and transmit varied moods and moments through it.
In art historian Rakhee Balaram’s words, “The self-portraits display the artist moving from girl to woman to artist as she explored a sensuality that ranges from the heavy-handed to the subtle. Sher-Gil casts herself in a serious light in her Self-Portrait with Easel (1930), moving deliberately from the domestic and the intimate context of the nineteenth-century woman artist to the monumental and majestic poses recalling those of Rembrandt and later Van Gogh.”
Balaram further adds, “At stake was not only a serious and viable artistic career as a woman, but the development of a subjectivity that was being defined through the self-portrait. Conscious of being both muse and maker, Sher-Gil took on the position of artist and object with a double consciousness of being both.”
The glittering life of Sher-Gil and the reality of her untimely death at the age of 28, could lead one to seek her biography in her self-portraits.
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28 January 2015 - 17 February 2015
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25 January 2015 - 30 October 2015
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14 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
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26 September 2014 - 21 December 2014
Oneiric House/ round about midnight
1 February 2014 - 9 March 2014
IS IT WHAT YOU THINK? - Ruminations on Time, Memory and Site
30 January 2014 - 27 September 2014
An Unfinished Portrait - Vignettes from the KNMA collection
23 January 2014 - 30 November 2014
SEVEN CONTEMPORARIES - Part of Difficult Loves
31 January 2013 - 8 December 2013
The self in making Part of Difficult Loves
31 January 2013 - 8 December 2013
A view to infinity - A Retrospective (1937-1990) Part of Difficult Loves
31 January 2013 - 8 December 2013
ZONES OF CONTACT - Propositions on the Museum
18 January 2013 - 30 November 2013
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27 October 2012 - 8 December 2012
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27 January 2012 - 20 January 2013
CROSSINGS - Time Unfolded II
23 January 2012 - 19 December 2012
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1 January 2011 - 31 December 2011
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1 January 2010 - 31 October 2010
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9 September 2016 - 8 February 2017
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24 August 2016 - 20 December 2016
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16 July 2016 - 20 December 2016
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18 March 2016 - 5 June 2016
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28 January 2016 - 20 July 2016
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15 November 2015 - 31 July 2016
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12 December 2016 - 30 April 2017
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3 February 2017 - 31 July 2017
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19 April 2017 - 28 February 2018
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15 October 2017 - 15 January 2018
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9 February 2018 - 20 July 2018
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4 December 2018 - 11 January 2019
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30 January 2019 - 14 July 2019
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22 January 2019 - 24 July 2019
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31 January 2019 - 10 February 2019
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SMELL ASSEMBLY
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10 December 2019 - 8 January 2020
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12 December 2019 - 7 March 2020
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30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
Abstracting Nature – Mrinalini Mukherjee and Jayashree Chakravarty
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
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30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
Zarina – A Life in Nine Lines
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
Delhi Modern: The Architecture of Independent India seen through the eyes of Madan Mahatta
13 February 2020 - 28 February 2020
Unfoldings: The Route Map of Experience by Jayashree Chakravarty
11 March 2021 - 15 April 2021
Atul Dodiya: Walking with the waves
23 March 2022 - 13 August 2022
K Ramanujam: Into the Moonlight Parade
23 March 2022 - 13 August 2022
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26 April 2022 - 28 December 2022
Somnath Hore | Birth of a White Rose
28 April 2022 - 30 September 2022
Convergence
28 April 2022 - 30 June 2022
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30 April 2022 - 30 June 2022
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26 October 2023 - 4 January 2024
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25 January 2024 - 11 July 2024
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26 May 2024 - 10 July 2024
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27 July 2024 - 30 September 2024
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16 August 2024 - 11 September 2024
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13 September 2024 - 20 February 2025
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15 October 2024 - 9 January 2025
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15 October 2024 - 10 December 2024
