The Vina Player

Artist	Amrita Sher-Gil
Year	1937
Location	Lahore Museum, Lahore, Pakistan

The Vina Player (1937) is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. It was number five of her 33 paintings displayed at her solo exhibition in the ballroom at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held from 21 to 27 November 1937. Sher-Gil's mother's favourite, it was initially not for sale, but then acquired by the Lahore Museum, through the encouragement of art critic Charles Fabri and the then museum's curator K. N. Sitaram.^[1]^[2]

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Bibliography

Dalmia, Yashodhara (2013). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life. Gurugram: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-342026-2.
Sundaram, Vivan (2010). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Tulika Books. pp. 1–417. ISBN 978-81-89487-59-1.
Sundaram, Vivan (2010). Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Tulika Books. pp. 418–821. ISBN 978-81-89487-59-1.

v t e Amrita Sher-Gil
Paintings	List of paintings Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait (1930) Amrita Sher-Gil Self Portrait (1931) Young Girls (1932) Professional Model (1933) Reclining Nude (1933) Sleep (1933) The Little Girl in Blue (1934) Self-Portrait as a Tahitian (1934) Hill Women (1935) Three Girls (1935) Bride's Toilet (1937) The Story Teller (1937)
Related	Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (father)