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Reclining Nude
ArtistAmrita Sher-Gil
Year1933
LocationNational Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

Reclining Nude is an oil on canvas painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, completed in 1933 in Budapest.[1][2][3] It depicts Sher-Gil's cousin Viola, sister of her husband Victor Egan.[4][lower-alpha 1]

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  1. Dalmia names the nude sent to Nawab Salar Jung in 1936 as the Reclining Nude, but Sher-Gil's letter to Indira dated 5 January 1937 says that it was the Nude of Indu.[5][6]

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  1. Sundaram, pp. 80-90
  2. Sundaram, Vivan; Sher-Gil, Umrao Singh (2001). Re-take of Amrita: Digital Photomontages Based on Photographs by Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954) and Photographs from the Sher-Gil Family Archive. Tulika. p. 55. ISBN 978-81-85229-49-2.
  3. Keserü, Katalin (2014). "8. Amrita Sher-Gil: the Indian painter and her French and Hungarian connections". In Dalmia, Yashodhara (ed.). Amrita Sher-Gil: Art & Life : a reader. Oxford University Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-19-809886-7.
  4. Sundaram, p. 94
  5. Sundaram, p. 285
  6. Dalmia, p. 80

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