Hill Women
Hill Women is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil, completed after she painted Hill Men in the winter of 1935 at Simla. Depicting a girl among three young women, it was influenced by the poor surrounding Sher-Gil's home in Simla, India.
| Hill Women | |
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Hill Women on an Indian stamp of 1978 | |
| Artist | Amrita Sher-Gil |
| Year | 1935 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 147.3 cm × 87 cm (58.0 in × 34 in) |
| Preceded by | Hill Men |
The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1936, and later at Hyderabad that year. Sher-Gil picked it for display at her One Man Show in Lahore in 1937. In 1978, it appeared on an Indian postage stamp.
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