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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1938 painting by Amrita Sher-Gil}}<br />
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'''''Village Scene''''' is an [[oil on canvas]] painting depicting Indian village life, completed in 1938 at Simla, India, by Hungarian-Indian artist [[Amrita Sher-Gil]] (1913 – 1941).<ref name=Sundaram2010.808>Sundaram, p. 808</ref><ref name=Sooke2007>{{cite news |last1=Sooke |first1=Alastair |title=Laid bare - the free spirit of Indian art |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3663362/Laid-bare-the-free-spirit-of-Indian-art.html |access-date=17 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217072608/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3663362/Laid-bare-the-free-spirit-of-Indian-art.html|archive-date=17 December 2023|work=The Telegraph |date=24 February 2007 |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|An earlier painting titled ''A Village Scene'' was shown at Barada Ukil's exhibition at [[The Cecil]], Simla, held in September 1936.<ref name=Sundaram2010.246>Sundaram, p. 246</ref>}} In March 2006 it was sold for $1.6 million.<ref name=Sooke2007/><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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