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Google doodles on Amrita Sher-Gil's 103 birth anniversary

by IBNS 29 Jan 2016, 07:50 pm

New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): Popular search engine Google on Saturday decorated its homepage with a painting by acclaimed artist Amrita Sher-Gil to mark his 103rd birthday.

The doodle is based on Amrita Sher-Gil's  "Three Girls" painting.

Amrita Sher-Gil was born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother on Jan 30, 1913  in Budapest.

She is considered an important woman painter of 20th century India.

Amrita Sher-Gil died on Dec 5, 1941 at the age of 28.