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Amrita Sher-Gil
Accession No . 27
Artist Name. Amrita Sher-Gil
Title. Boris Tachlitzky
Medium. Oil on Canvas
Size. 30" x 38"
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Amrita Sher-Gil painted more than one portrait of Boris Tachlitzky from 1930 to 1932. Tachlitzky, a left-wing artist, was a fellow student of Sher-Gil in Paris. Art historian Deepak Ananth describes him also as a one-time lover of Sher-Gil. (Deepak Ananth, Amrita Sher-Gil; An Indian Artist Family of the Twentieth Century, Schimer/Mosel, 2007 p.16)
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