Group of Three Girls

By Amrita Shergill (1913 – 1941)

1935 · Oil on canvas · 39.173 in × 28.937 in · Modern

Commission a hand-painted reproduction from Panchrang artists.

With the three girls, she began to move away from the academic realist style of paintings towards a flatter, more modern composition. It depicts three young women on the threshold of adulthood and marriage, their helpless expressions indicating the artist's empathy for their predicament.