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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1937 painting by Amrita Sher-Gil}}<br />
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{{Infobox artwork<br />
| title = Brahmacharis<br />
| image = Brahmacharis 1937.jpg<br />
| artist = [[Amrita Sher-Gil]]<br />
| year = 1937<br />
| medium = Oil on canvas<br />
| width_metric = 144.5<br />
| length_metric = 86.5<br />
| metric_unit = cm<br />
| imperial_unit = in<br />
| museum = [[National Gallery of Modern Art]], [[New Delhi]]<br />
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'''''Brahmacharis''''' is an [[oil on canvas]] painting by Hungarian-Indian artist [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], completed in May 1937 at [[Shimla]], [[British India|India]].<ref name=Sundaram2010.807>Sundaram, p. 807</ref><ref name=Rana2017>{{cite journal |last1=Rana |first1=Subir |title=Framing the political, rebellious and 'desiring' body: Amrita Sher-Gil and the 'Modern' in Painting |journal=India International Centre Quarterly |date=2017 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=35–53 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26317442?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&searchKey=&refreqid=fastly-default%3A5032121bf12a572137885ff7b08405fb |issn=0376-9771}}</ref><ref name=Keserü>{{cite book |last1=Keserü |first1=Katalin |editor1-last=Dalmia |editor1-first=Yashodhara |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: Art & Life : a reader |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-809886-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U7W4oAEACAAJ |language=en |chapter=8. Amrita Sher-Gil: the Indian painter and her French and Hungarian connections|pages=111-112}}</ref> It is one of her large compositions and one of her South Indian trilogy, along with ''[[Bride's Toilet]]'' and ''[[South Indian Villagers going to Market]]''.<ref name=Sundaram2010.370>Sundaram, p. 370</ref><ref name=Dalmia2013.201>Dalmia, p. 201</ref> In 1937 it was displayed at [[Amrita Sher-Gil's paintings at Lahore (1937)|her Lahore exhibition]] for a price of ₹1,500.<ref name=Sundaram2010.422>Sundaram, p. 422</ref> <br />
[[File:Amrita Sher-Gil at Lahore 1937 Exhibition.jpg|thumb|Amrita Sher-Gil at her 1937 Lahore Exhibition with ''Brahmacharis'']]<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[List of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil]]<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{Cite book |last=Dalmia|first=Yashodhara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mj3mlgEACAAJ |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life |date=2013 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Gurugram |isbn=978-0-14-342026-2 |language=en}}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Sundaram |first1=Vivan |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings |date=2010 |publisher=Tulika Books |location=New Delhi |volume=1|pages=1–417|isbn=978-81-89487-59-1}}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Sundaram |first1=Vivan |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings |date=2010 |publisher=Tulika Books |location=New Delhi |volume=2|pages=418–821|isbn=978-81-89487-59-1}}<br />
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