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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1941 painting by Amrita Sher-Gil}}<br />
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| artist = [[Amrita Sher-Gil]]<br />
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'''''The Last Unfinished Painting''''', originally titled '''''On the Roof''''', is [[Amrita Sher-Gil]]'s last [[oil on canvas]] painting, created from the window of her apartment in [[Lahore]], [[British India|India]], shortly before her death in December 1941. Her intention was to paint what she could see from her terrace: the milkmen's buffaloes that lived near her house.<ref name=Singh1975>{{cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=N. Iqbal |title=Amrita Sher-Gil |journal=India International Centre Quarterly |date=1975 |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=209–217 |jstor=23001838 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23001838 |issn=0376-9771|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Sundaram.2010.774>Sundaram, p.774</ref><ref name=Dalmia2014>{{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=122–123}}</ref> A detailed account of the painting is given in [[Vivan Sundaram]]'s last unwritten letter, which he dated 1 December 1941.<ref name=Sundaram.2010.782>Sundaram, pp. 782-785</ref> In it is described a mysterious black object that appears in the bottom right corner, though it was erased in a restoration after 1944.<ref name=Sundaram.2010.782/><br />
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==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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