Rating and value of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil

If you own a work by or based on the work of artist Amrita Sher-Gil and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Rating and value of the artist 

A major artist of modern art, Amrita Sher-Gil is rapidly establishing herself as a sure value on the art market. Sought-after by collectors the world over, Amrita Sher-Gil enjoys a high and constantly rising market value. As a result, a signed work by the artist can fetch millions of euros at auction, as evidenced by her painting The story teller, dating from 1937, adjudicated for over €5,909,000 in 2023, whereas it was estimated at between €3,155,600 and €4,282,600. 

Order of value from a simple work to the most prestigious

The artist's works and style

Amrita Sher-Gil's style is characterized by a bold use of color and geometric shapes. Fascinated by the relationship between shapes and colors, she has explored how they can interact and create optical effects. She was inspired by Western art early in her career, but returned to a more Indian influence in the 1930s.

Amrita Sher-Gil's life

Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913, a Hungarian-Indian artist. Her father was an Indian aristocrat, while her mother was a Hungarian opera singer. She traveled to India during her childhood, but spent most of it in Budapest, then moved to Shimla, India for two years before leaving for Florence, where she studied at an art school. She traveled to Europe with her mother to train as a painter, notably in Paris, where she took classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. At the start of her career, she produced mainly portraits, mixing realist and post-impressionist influences.

Wishing to reconnect with traditional Indian art, she moved back to Shimla, and traveled throughout India to learn more about her country's artistic practices. She ended her career in the Uttlar Pradesh region, where she painted rural India.

Her first major exhibition took place in Lahore in 1941, but she fell ill and died a few days before the opening.

Amrita Sher-Gil's imprint on her period

Amrita Sher-Gil made a lasting mark on her time through her consistent artistic output. She is better known to the general American public, but her works are very successful at auction and her value continues to rise.

 Her signature

Not all of Amrita Sher-Gil's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of her signature:

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