The ‘artist family’ presented in this book spans three generations: Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954), his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) and his grandson (Amrita’s sister Indira’s son) Vivan Sundaram (b. 1943).A scion of India’s Sikh aristocracy, Umrao Singh was a nationalist, an independent scholar with philosophical interests, and and eccentric, somewhat Tolstoyan figure in appearance. An amateur photographer of some genius, ...
