The Vina Player | |
Artist: | Amrita Sher-Gil |
Year: | 1937 |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Subject: | Veena, women |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Lahore Museum |
City: | 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.