DUSHANBE , February 1, Asia-Plus - An exhibition of Indian paintings titled “Amrita Shergil - Revisited” will open at the Cultural Center of the Indian Embassy in Dushanbe on February 8.   

            According to information from the Indian Embassy, the unique feature of this exhibition is that it displays the works by 50 eminent Indian women artists, each of whom was reacting to Amrita Shergil, a national treasure and painter who inspired a generation of women to paint.  Each artist in the show has interpreted Amrita’s immortal canvass, “Three Sisters” in her own individual style and idiom. 

 Amrita, an icon for Indian women artists of the new millennium, painted the “Three Sisters” over 75 years ago, and the original canvass is now at the National Art Gallery in New Delhi .    

The exhibition runs through February 17.  

Information of Asia-Plus: Amrita Shergil (1913-1941) was the daughter of an Indian father and Hungarian mother.  She started color painting even as a child, and later continued painting in France and Hungary .  She returned to India in 1934.  She obtained her artist education at school of arts “Escole des Beaux-Arts” in Paris .