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Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 7 (1930)

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Self-Portrait 7 is a self-portrait by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil, one of several of her self-portraits completed in 1930 in Paris.[1] It shows her as a "vivacious and jovial" character.[2] In the portrait, Sher-Guil's hair falls freely and she is wearing a dress that reveals her shoulders.[3] She appears leaning forward towards the viewer, and looks seductive.[2] It has been likened to Renoir's portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary (1877), and Raja Ravi Varma's late 19th century painting, Lady Holding a Fruit.[2] It is one of her 19 known self-portraits created in Europe.[4]

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  1. ^ Sundaram, p. 798
  2. ^ a b c Shaw-Johnson, Amanda (2021). Why Now?: The Euro-U.S. Canon Adopts Tarsila do Amaral and Amrita Sher-Gil Almost 90 Years Later (Thesis). UC Davis.
  3. ^ Dalmia, p.54
  4. ^ Sundaram, pp. 412-413

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