Brief Biography-Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913, the daughter of a Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian-Jewish opera singer. She spent a short time in Florence with her sister and later studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École des Beaux-Arts where she achieved acclaim. Impressionists in Paris strongly influenced her work, especially the likes of Paul Gauguin. A year after she returned to India, she travelled the country for inspiration. She eventually settled with her husband in Lahore, where she died from an infection at twenty-eight. She reached the peak of her career in 1941.