Amrita Sher-Gill's paintings to be displayed in London gallery

London, Feb 24 (UNI) Over 30 paintings of the world famous "glamorous Indian modernist" Amrita Sher-Gill will be exhibited here next week at the Tate Modern gallery, in the largest display of an Indian artist ever mounted there.

This exhibition explores Amrita Sher-Gill's importance to the development of Indian modern art." "Not one ( exhibition) has been seen in Britain before," wrote Alstair Spooke in the Telegraph. The pre-exhibition reminiscences about her would make India proud. "She found her subject in the female form and began to paint a series of sensuous, highly charged nudes. Sleep (1933), which depicts her younger sister Indira, is possibly the most erotic, with its sinuous swellings and subtle fluctuations of flesh," the critic said.

Spooke wrote of her as being a bewitching, enigmatic figure whose life entices almost as much as her art. She was the inspiration behind the female painter in Salman Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh".

Her gusting free spirit was already evident - she had been expelled from convent school in India - and she soon became enamoured of the modish modern art crackling through the French capital, as well as the bohemian lifestyle that went with it. She found her subject in the female form and began to paint a series of sensuous, highly charged nudes, said the Telegraph art critic.

The Gallery "has returned to her not as to the glorious dead, to pay homage, to reinstate or to demolish-but to discover if there is a territory between the glory and the rejection that is worth exploring for ourselves, walking in our own times. We believed there might be: that is why the project was undertaken," Mr Spooke said.

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