Amrita Sher-Gil portrait: Amrita Sher-Gil portrait of her husband may fetch Rs 15 crore at e-auction | Mumbai News
Oil-on-canvas ‘Portrait of Victor Egan’ MUMBAI: A rare 1939 portrait of her husband by legendary Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil is estimated to fetch up to Rs 15 crore at a virtual auction this weekend. Created as a parting gift to her husband's family, the oil-on-canvas titled 'Portrait of Victor Egan' shows the artist's suave Hungarian army doctor husband in his uniform, a lit cigarette between his fingers. Born in 1913 in Budapest, Sher-Gil was the first significant woman artist from India to attain fame internationally in the 1930s. Her father, Umrao Singh Shergil, scion of a Sikh fam...